Will the New Aflite Affiliate Network Be Good for Affiliates As Well As Small Business?
Aflite is the new affiliate network built for new and small online businesses due for launch early July. The broader selection of new, unique and innovative merchants delivers attractive propositions for affiliates to market.
The Aflite.co.uk network has been designed for accessibility to small and new businesses to start affiliate marketing. But, does it make sense for affiliates to join?
Affiliates want the following from their network and its merchants:
- Assurance of payment
Aflite provide tools to ensure affiliates can analyse the quality of a merchant. The API (Application Programming Interface) gives affiliates the power to run live checks on merchants before displaying a merchant on their website.Calculations based on historic data produce a quality score of a merchant. This information is passed to the affiliate for their own assesment. - High commission rates
Due to Aflite’s billing model, 100% of commission is paid to affiliates. Aflite charge merchants on their credit top ups, freeing up commission for affiliates. - High conversions
Although conversions in some cases may be lower, smaller less well known businesses often pay more commission than the large brands. Combined with Aflite’s billing methods affiliates should see a good return from their chosen merchants. - A good proposition
It’s always good to offer something a bit different. New businesses are often innovative in their approach, providing new business models and services that aren’t typically found from the larger retailers.
Aflite has worked hard to address the issues that face affiliates, striving to be a network profitable for both small businesses and affiliates.
The new network is due for launch in the second week of July 2009, if you have any questions or suggestions for Aflite please checkout their holding page at http://aflite.co.uk for contact details. There are also some benefits in registering your interest early.
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Now at lifestyle dental you can get straight teeth within months with teh revolutionery Inman Aligner and with the payment plans and finance options available at Lifestyle Dental you can set up a easy payment plan so it can be as little as £5 a day over a 10 month period.
British Space Organisation launch their ‘Your Voice In Space’ campaign in collaboration with Bournemouth University
British Space Organisation launch their ‘Your Voice In Space’ campaign in collaboration with Bournemouth University
(Bournemouth, UK - 22 May 2009) Today, the British Space Organisation launched it’s new youth orientated campaign ‘Your Voice In Space’. The BSO has teamed up with one of the best Media schools in the country at Bournemouth University in order to combine the knowledge and expertise of the students within the project.
‘Your Voice In Space’ is a new campaign, looking to raise awareness of cultural and global identity within the 14 – 24 year old age bracket, through the planned launch of a space probe.
The probe would be unique in that it would house a two-way transmitter that allows several media forms to be relayed to and from the probe. People are encouraged to answer weekly questions through the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as YouTube and the BSO main website. These answers are then ‘posted’ into space through the probe.
The initiative is also unique in that it is completely free. Many similar projects have gone before the Your Voice In Space campaign, but none have been this accessible to so many people worldwide.
The Bournemouth Media School is the only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice in the UK and offers courses such as Journalism and Communication and Computer Animation. The talents of the students studying for degrees in Television, Interaction Media Production and Scriptwriting have been employed by the BSO. These students are involved not only in the broadcasting surrounding the probe, but also in the day to day running of the websites and other content that the campaign requires.
Commenting on the launch, Rob Hawkes, Interactive Media student and Chief Technical Officer of the BSO, said; ‘This is a great opportunity for us as media students and we are very lucky to be involved in such a project. It also gives us valuable experience in that we can put what we have been studying into practice.’
A spokesman from the BSO also welcomed the launch, stating that; ‘We are always looking to conjure new interest in space science. One of our main aims is to get under 25s involved and interested in such subjects. The students at the Bournemouth Media School will be the perfect addition to the campaign, as they will be striving for the attention of their own peers.’
The BSO was established in 2009 to ‘rejuvenate interest in space science and exploration.’ As an organization they look to represent the interests of the UK science, commerce, education and industry in its research and studies.
Website address: http://britishspace.org.uk/yourvoice
Email address: press@britishspace.org.uk
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Sunset Digital Books launches “Forests of the Night”, A fiction book on Hitler youth in Australia
Brisbane, Australia. 6 May 2009:- Richard Huckett, author of Forests of the Night, was raised in a timber and dairying town cleared from the primeval rain forest on the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns in North Queensland. As a toddler, Richard played with aboriginal children who survived the ruthless dispersal of the Mamu speaking clans, owners for eons of the jungle-clad gorges below the immemorial Millaa Millaa and Ellinjaa Falls. Ancestors of his lively piccaninny playmates bequeathed all Australians these fascinating aboriginal names after the Rainbow Serpent of the Dreamtime gouged a precipitous river gorge from The Tableland down to the Coral Sea.
Fiction book, “Forests of the Night” traces the often horrendous experiences that continue to confront Erich Neumann, a talented teenage Hitler Youth who is cast into Buchenwald Concentration Camp on New Year’s Eve for 1942 because of a spontaneous act of human decency. An outcast in Germany after the war ended in 1945, a shattered Erich migrates to Australia as a Jennings German carpenter to help construct Canberra, Australia’s new inland national capital.
Awarded a Queen Scout certificate as a teenager, Richard Huckett was also fascinated by stories related to him by former Hitler Youths who migrated to Australia after the Second World War. Forests of the Night, a fiction book deals not only with the disasters that befell a fictional group of teenagers who lived in Weimar during the Third Reich but also with the historical demise of the Mamu clans who once lived in the rain forest that canopied the North Johnstone River.
Inspired by a mysterious Irish recluse prospecting for gold in the Palmerston rain forest in Far North Queensland, Erich finally finds happiness in drawing Celtic illustrations for Irish school books and in a budding love affair with a nursing Sister at Innisfail District Hospital.
However, in a jungle that once teemed with Mamu speaking aborigines, Erich encounters another efflorescence of evil. Hunted by desperate teenagers, he is forced to draw on all his Hitler Youth training and his Buchenwald organizing skills to survive in this alien, vine-shrouded forest of the night. Will he survive this onslaught?
Forest of the Night, priced at US$22.95, the eBook can be purchased online only at: http://sunset-digital-books.com/fiction/hitler-youth/index.html
About Sunset Digital Books
The Internet’s most innovative online bookstore provides the opportunity for authors and self-publishers to sell their professionally produced books in digital format only (eBook), direct to the public via the Internet. For more than 25 years, Sunset Digital has been providing publishing services to major book publishers and self-publishers.
For further information, including a PDF extract of this digital book, contact:
Richard Hudson
CEO, Sunset Digital Books (http://www.sunset-digital-books.com)
“The Internet’s most innovative bookstore”
Phone: 617 32369898
Email: ceo@sunset-digital-books.com
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Media Ink Launches Unlimted DVD Rental Comparison
Media Ink, the comparison site specialists, have launched www.unlimited-dvd-rental.co.uk. Media Ink' latest beta engine provides an introduction to and guidance on the internet DVD rental marketplace, and allows consumers to compare the leading Unlimited DVD rental packages ree-of-charge. unlimited dvd rental has been launched in beta by comparison shopping specialists the Media Ink at www.unlimited-dvd-rental.co.uk. The site provides an introduction to and guidance on the internet DVD rental marketplace, and allows consumers to compare the leading packages and providers free-of-charge.
Independant Wine Club Reviewer Adds More Clubs
Mr Wino, the top online wine club comparison company, which compares UK wine clubs has launched its latest club review updates to the site, reinforcing current reviews and highlighting the cost of a wine club over 12 months and aspects such as joining gits.
With wine becoming more more expensive, it has become cheaper to taste new wines by joining a wine club, great savings are to be made when joining with some clubs offering decent bottles of wine for as little as £2.00. One of the most popular wine clubs at the moment is The Sunday Times Wine club which goes threw another merchant, the current deal is very cheap and worth considering.
Many people are finding it hard, with the UK in a recession many local wine makers are struggling to survive, the wine clubs target these small vineyards and wine makers and brings the wines to the club members.
Wine Maker, Fred Hammond.
“We are very proud of the relationship that we have with the wine merchants, it gives use the ability to distribute our wine to an audience we cant usually target. ”.
For the latest review of the wine clubs from mr wino visit http://www.mrwino.co.uk/2009/03/30/wine-club/
Research finds that UK plc is wasting over £65 billion pounds a year on mismanaged expenditure
08 April, 2009. In research carried out by buyingTeam, the UK’s leading independent procurement specialist, it was revealed that UK businesses spend over £350 bn per year on non core goods and services (indirect procurement*) and that over £65bn per year can be saved through better supplier relationships and managed costs.
Using data from over a decade of managing expenditure for large, international corporations, buyingTeam has calculated that £65bn of that total is likely to be overspend**.
During the current economic uncertainty and a time when many UK businesses are faced with urgent cost cutting measures, the last thing that companies want to do is lose valuable personnel as part of a cost cutting exercise. The difficulty that many companies, of all sizes, face is that they either can’t easily get a view of its overall annual expenditure or it doesn’t have the necessary experience or capacity to comprehensively review spend and implement the necessary change.
“It is amazing that, despite the current economic retraction and the daily reality of redundancies, organisations can still be so unclear as to what exactly they are spending their increasingly hard to earn capital on.” said Guy Strafford, Client Services Director, buyingTeam. “We estimate that mismanaged expenditure adds up to around £65 bn in wasted outlay per annum for UK plc. When cash flow is tight and financing difficult to find, now is definitely the time to review all potential waste, especially as we’re really seeing contraction in fees and expecting a drop of 14-18% in IT costs in 2009.”
“At first sight, indirect spend seems unimportant and not ‘worthy’ of so much time and attention,” says Shirley Cooper, Procurement & Supply Chain Director, Computacenter (UK) Ltd. “However, when we saw the figures and realised how much we could take off our annual outgoings, we were amazed. Over the last few months, we’ve saved £millions just by reviewing our indirect spend and improving our internal processes to ensure better use and buying by all members of our company”.
Guy Strafford continues: “We analyse the spend of companies that we work with and our research regularly suggests that large companies can usually save up to 20% on their indirect spend; some of these savings can be almost immediate.”
Guy Strafford recommends that FDs and those in charge of procurement should do the following:
· What gets measured, gets done - Ask yourself if you have a clear view of all company expenditure
· Economies of scale - See whether there are multiple suppliers for the same product or service
· Prices are dropping - Check when the contracts with suppliers were last reviewed or renewed
· Some spend is unnecessary - Ask how suppliers are used, are they needed?
· Ensure that close management of suppliers continues after the contract has started
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