Happy New Year!
If you’re anything like me, you will have decided that this year you are going to start doing more for the environment as well as those in dire need of help, be it need for shelter, water or protecting our endangered species.
Well, dgm have the perfect tools to help you implement these thoughts - why not promote all things green this year and do your bit for the environment?
Natural Collection, the UK’s multiple award-winning eco department store, launched on the network just before Christmas with ooffoo, their eco-community site where you can trade and recycle all things green as well as chat to like minded people. Ooffoo is exclusive to dgm and they are currently offering 25% CPA on a paid listing. Natural collection has a 180 cookie period and 8% base rate commission so it’s the perfect time to “Go Green”. For more info, please click here.
Coupled with our extensive Charity Client list, there’s no better time to make sure that 2009 is an ethical year for you.
With Valentines Day just around the corner too, we have put together a little game for you to play. There are no prizes, it’s just a bit of fun! If you would like to use this game to promote the featured Clients, then please get in touch and I will provide you with the code, complete with your tracking links.
We’ve also just set up a Facebook group where you can get all the latest news from dgmTowers - become a Fan 
or follow us minute by minute on Twitter.
All the best for a prosperous 2009
Hotspots
Haven Holidays - £50 Cash Bonus!
We are delighted to announce a great new incentive to promote Haven Holidays. We’re offering affiliates an additional £5 bonus on their first booking followed by a £50 cash bonus if a total of 5 bookings are generated within the next month.
With such an achievable bonus on offer and being amidst the peak months for Travel and the increasing popularity of UK based holidays, now is the perfect time to promote Haven holidays.
To be eligible for the bonus incentive you need to be new to the program or have failed to generate a booking since 31st Oct to date. The bonus month will run from Monday 26th January to Thursday 26th February and to qualify for the £50 cash bonus 5 bookings need to be generated within these dates. Haven offer highly competitive commission tiers to which the bonuses will be in addition to. Earn 4% of the basket value on all holidays!
Warner Holidays - Increased Commission for January, Valentines and Easter!
As January is the peak season for Warner Leisure Hotels, we are delighted to announce an increase in commission to 6% for the remainder of January 2009. So now has never been a better time to push Warner’s fantastic hotels and resorts to those who are looking to book their 2009 breaks.
And with Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it’s a great time to be promoting Warner’s Valentine Breaks, as they have some great customer offers available to customers. The offer at the moment is save up to 30% on Valentine’s breaks but this is only available until the 25th January.
All bookings for Valentine’s and Easter weekends will also be paid at a higher commission rate of 8% giving you further incentive to really push these breaks.
Creative is available to support this, available from the interface, along with a landing page for Valentine’s Day here.
Siblu - Up to 20% off 2009 Holidays!
With the current economic climate, Siblu appreciate the importance of value for money which is why they give the very best savings on accommodation, do not charge adult prices for anyone under 18 and keep the costs of deposit to a minimum.
Siblu are currently offering savings of up to 20% off family holidays if booked before 14th February:-
From To Save up to
4 April 17 April 20%
18 April 15 May 15%
16 May 29 May 20%
30 May 10 July 15%
11 July 4 September 10%
5 September 31st October 20%
Siblu offer generous commission of 5% of the basket value on all holidays as well as a current incentive scheme of:-
• £50 bonus payment to each affiliate generating 10 sales or more
• £100 bonus payment to each affiliate generating 20 sales or more
• £250 bonus payment to each affiliate generating 50 sales or more
• £1000 bonus payment to each affiliate generating 100 sales or more
Pontins - increased commission
We are delighted to let you know that from Thursday 22nd January 2009, Pontin’s are offering increased commission up until the end of February 2009!
• 0 - 29 sales, earn 8% of the basket value
• 30 - 69 sales, earn 9% of the basket value
• 70+ Sales, earn 10% of the basket value
We are also very pleased to announce that Pontin’s are now working exclusively with DGM and are looking forward to a fantastic 2009 campaign!
Pontin’s is a great opportunity for any affiliate looking to drive sales amid the uncertain current financial market with almost a fifth of people in the UK looking for value holidays in 2009 and almost half (49%) assessing their holiday plans for 2009. The UK also topped the list for the top value destinations for 2009 as researched by Travelsupermarket.com.
With further improvements to their Key Messages, Branding and Price Leads, Pontin’s have produced some fresh new creatives and introduced ‘Mr Pontastic!’ the consumer champion responsible for driving prices down all year round. From the cost of the guest’s holiday to a pint of milk in the shop, Mr Pontastic captures Pontin’s continued desire to provide outstanding value for money.
Don’t forget, we also offer highly competitive commission for promoting SeaFrance, Condor Ferries and/or Speedbreaks! Further information on these and all our travel campaigns can be found on our dgmKnowledge travel page.
New Campaigns
Store, save and share your digital life!
humyo.com is Europe’s leading service provider of online storage and sharing software for both consumers and business. With a range of award winning products, humyo.com makes it easy to store and backup files online, synchronize multiple computers and access data away from your PC.
Commission structure
humyo.com are offering CPA commission of up to £23.00 for completed registrations at launch, including £0.23 for each completed registration to their Free offering.
• Sign up for free digital Storage - £0.23
• Purchase of Premium Storage monthly account - £3.85
• Purchase of Premium Storage annual account - £15.40
• Purchase of Workspace S monthly account - £15.40
• Purchase of Workspace S annual account - £23.00
• Purchase of Workspace L monthly account - £15.40
• Purchase of Workspace L annual account - £23.00
• Become a Humyo Reseller - £53.85
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to start promoting a market leader in a rapidly growing industry!
For more information on this campaign, or if you have any questions, please contact Mark Harwood.
Debts.tv is one of the UK’s leading providers of personal debt solutions. They deal with over 20,000 debt cases every year and have been one of the main solution providers in the market for the last 6 years.
Debts.tv offers affiliates the following CPA:
£10 - Completed Application
£275 - Completed IVA
£50 - Completed Debt Management Case
If you require any creatives or email templates please email Ralph Taylor Thornton
SpoilMeNow.co.uk is a newly launched health and beauty website aiming to provide a comprehensive guide to health and beauty offers including: laser eye surgery and cosmetic surgery, dieting, health, fitness, beauty and fashion. Within each section we are hosting great CPL campaign for you to promote.
For the launch we are starting with the two following campaigns:
• Laser eye surgery
£5.20 for every new valid sign up for Ultralase - Request a free info pack for Laser eye surgery.
http://www.spoilmenow.co.uk/eyecare/ultralase.jsp
Ultralase is the leading national provider for Laser eye surgery and every sign up receives a free information pack. Creatives will deep link to the subscription form offering you the best conversion for the campaign. The campaign is single opt in and requires name, postal address and telephone number.
• Cosmetic surgery
£2.00 for every new valid sign up for Harley Street Smile Clinic - Request a free dental telephone consultation.
http://www.spoilmenow.co.uk/cosmeticsurgery/streetsmile.jsp
The Harley Street Smile Clinic is UK’s most experienced dental clinic. Within the sign up user get a free dental telephone consultation. Leads are also single opt in and only include name and telephone number. Creatives deeplink to the subscription form giving you best conversion.
SpoilMeNow.co.uk is operated by eCircle Ltd., Europe’s leading email marketing specialist.
For more information on this campaign, or if you have any questions please contact Andreas Windolph (a.windolph@ecircle.com)
Ooprint.co.uk is a comprehensive and convenient online printing service. They offer a large variety of personal and professional printed products such as business cards, invitations, birth announcements, letterhead, greeting cards, correspondence cards, address labels and more!
Your visitors will be particularly attracted to:
• Our 100 FREE BUSINESS CARDS offer
• Our frequent promotions: 300 business cards for the price of 200, 20% off birth announcements
• The large number of different business card designs offered (over 700 models!)
• The ability to upload a logo or photo for free
• Our superior print quality
• Fast Delivery (orders shipped in 48 hours)
• Our creativity and attention to design detail
When you become an affiliate of ooprint.com, you can offer your visitors an innovative online service of high quality AND you will benefit from a profitable commission!
Why should you promote Ooprint?
• Earn money by offering FREE products to your visitors!!
• Fast payment of commissions
• NO REVERSALS OF AFFILIATE TRASACTIONS FOR CANCELLED ORDERS or RETURNS FROM CUSTOMERS
• Attractive banners and emailing designs
• Dedicated program management
Program Commission Tiers
Valid on all products, including our FREE business cards and any products on sale!
1+ sales per month £3.00 per valid order
51+ sales per month £4.00 per valid order
100+ sales per month £5.00 per valid order
For more information on this campaign, or if you have any questions please contact Meredith Clark (m.clark@aventers.net ).
Start promoting a solution to losing weight that really works!!
In the UK around 43% of men and 33% of women are overweight. A further 22% of men and 23% of women fall into the obese category. This means that over half of the population is overweight.
Although the percentage of overweight and obese people is increasing all over the world, the rate is especially high in the United Kingdom - the percentage of the population which is overweight has increased by 50% in the last 10 years.
CHO-YUNG.com is an online business for a brand of Chinese slimming tea. The site promotes CHO-YUNG tea to potential customers who form part of the billion pounds a year UK diet industry. Despite the credit crunch, gym memberships are currently on the rise as a large proportion of the millions of clinically obese UK adults attempt to slim down; CHO-YUNG is able to effectively tap into this market through targeted online messages. CHO-YUNG encourages slimmer’s to take part in a 14-day free trial (courier costs of £1.99), before converting early enquirers into regular customers.
CHO-YUNG is 100% online and this product will not be available in the High Street. The CHO-YUNG business model is based on a highly successful slimming product in the US which delivers fantastic conversions and take-up rates.
Customers have no need to change their eating habits or take up strenuous exercise, the magic of the tea works by changing the way the body deals with excess fat. Drinking CHO-YUNG tea will educate your body to burn and dispose of unwanted fat. Typical users will lose around 2-3 kg (5-7lbs) per month for doing nothing more than drinking tea!
The customer will be supplied 2 packets (30 bags per packet) per month, sent by courier to tie in with monthly payments.
What’s on offer?
• CHO-YUNG will pay the introducing affiliate commission - £10.00 for every sale which has not been canceled within 18 days
• Great website which contains: testimonials from tea-drinking slimmer’s, information on the genuine Chinese herbal ingredients used in the CHO-YUNG product, dietary advice, tea recipes and scientific research, state of the art web design and communication tools, setting it apart from online competitors.
• Online support 24/7 and email contact for all prospective users. The team of experts in-house can advise on any issues or concerns that the user may have with the product or the program.
If you have any queries about the programme please feel free to contact Matylda Kosieradzka.
We are pleased to announce that the Garmin affiliate campaign has launched exclusively on the dgmAffiliates network!
Since 1989, Garmin has created products to transform the way our customers navigate life. A world leader in satellite navigation and global positioning system (GPS) products, Garmin designs, manufactures, markets and sells cutting-edge, intuitive and user-friendly electronics and communications devices and applications.
From our roots in aviation and marine, Garmin GPS navigation can now be found in-car, on mobile phones, for outdoor adventure, sport and fitness.
Commencing initially with Garmin Mobile products, the affiliate program offers affiliates the opportunity to benefit from products developed by the world leader in mobile navigation.
Currently we offer Garmin Mobile TM and Garmin MobileTM for Blackberry brings the power of GPS to your smartphone and Blackberry.
We will soon be launching new products from Garmin such as in-car sat nav’s and Garmin Mobile PC.
Commission Structure
Garmin will pay the following for sales though the main website:
7% of the basket value on Garmin Mobile XT5 and Garmin Mobile for Blackberry
Creative
You can find creative for both Garmin Mobile TM and Garmin MobileTM for Blackberry in the Garmin section of dgmPro.
Deep Linking
You may deeplink to anywhere within the Garmin site as follows:
Take your individual s2d6 link
apend with “&t=”
and then add in the url:
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/uk/mobiles/garmin_mobile_xt
So overall it will look something like this:
http://www.s2d6.com/x/?x=c&z=s&v=1373025&k=&t=http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/uk/mobiles/garmin_mobile_xt
You can find out more information on the Garmin dgmKnowledge page
Campaign updates
We are pleased to announce the launch of two new products from Cardiff Pinnacle.
Income Protection
Protect yourself again the unexpected with great value income protection insurance.
A great value Income Protection product that can help plan for the unexpected and help to relieve financial burden. Given the current uncertain economic climate more and more people are looking to take steps to protect themselves and their families should the worst happen - making this an attractive product for any affiliate network.
Mortgage Payment Protection
Protect yourself again the unexpected with great value Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance.
helpucover offers great value, award winning Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance. Given the current uncertain economic climate, with house repossession on the rise and unemployment increasing, more and more people are looking to take steps to protect themselves and their families should the worst happen.
These new products are in addition to the helpucover Pet Insurance offering, and are all under the same campaign.
Both of these exciting new products have a great CPA of £40, so pick up the creative in dgmPro now and start promoting!
For more information, please view the Cardiff Pinnacle page within dgmKnowledge or contact James Bennie.
XLN Telecom is offering all affiliates £10 bonus for all valid sales made through February. That’s up to £85 per sale!
XLN Telecom is a leading B2B telecoms provider, supplying UK small businesses with low-cost, high-quality phone & broadband services.
XLN offers a range of call packages, allowing customers to choose the tariff best suited to their business requirements. In addition to phone services, customers have the option to bundle with high-speed, competitively priced broadband.
Why XLN?
• 100,000+ small businesses in the UK have switched to XLN
• Guaranteed savings and price match
• Leading conversion rate and commission payout
• Sales tracked via web and telephone
Earn £50 to £85 per Sale in February
• Up to 10 valid sales per calendar month = £50 flat fee
• 11 - 40 valid sales per calendar month = £60 flat fee
• 40+ valid sales per calendar month = £85 flat fee
XLN’s Offering
XLN is committed to providing the lowest cost telecom services and highest customer service levels to the UK’s small business community. Founded in 2002, XLN is now the UK’s largest independent provider of telecom services to small businesses in Britain having over 100,000 business customers across the country. In 2007, XLN was ranked as the highest placed Telco company in the The Sunday Times Tech Track and was listed for a second consecutive year in 2008.
Show Us Your Links!
With the new 2009 Electoral Roll with 22 million additional records now live on 192.com, are you making the most of the opportunities available?
dgm are pleased to announce that a new incentive is being run throughout February, in which we are encouraging affiliates to make the most of the vast creative available.
We are encouraging affiliates to get creative in their promotion of the campaign, whether this is by adding the HTML search forms to existing pages, or making a brand new page dedicated to the campaign.
To aide affiliates in this competition, there is a wide range of creative available, including gif and flash banners and HTML search forms that allow your visitors to search on your site before being taken to the relevant results from 192.com. There is also a wide range of information on the campaign available from their dgmKnowledge page.
Competition Format:
There will be 3 categories in which affiliates can compete and these categories are based on sales made in January.
- New affiliates that are yet to make any sales.
- Affiliates that make up to 10 sales in a month.
- Affiliates that make more than 10 sales in month
All you need to do is send us your links (to James.bennie@dgm-uk.com) to your promotion by 16th February to be in with a chance of winning.
The judging of this competition will be carried out by 192.com, and will be based upon the number of links used, the attractiveness and layout of the page and the effectiveness of your updated promotion.
There will be a first prize of £75 for the winner of each category, and if you need more encouragement to push 192.com the commission will rise to 25% of basket value if you drive £4000 or more in sales value!
So get promoting and show us your links!!
dgmDonates
Dgm has launched dgmDonates, affiliate marketing for the charity sector. Dgm now have 11 charity campaigns running on the network ranging from WWF to NSPCC. To find out more please check out the press release and the website.
New website
We wanted to let you know that work is under way to revitalise our website. Alongside the new website, we will be reworking the blog to make it easier to navigate and make it more usable as a reference tool. We plan to release the new site towards the end of the first quarter… watch this space!
…And Finally - Quick Fire with Chrissie
Name: Chrissie Hughes
A4U Handle: chrissiehughes
Role: Account Executive
How long have you been at dgm: 1 yr 2 months
Tell us an interesting fact about you: I trained as a professional make-up artist previous to Affiliate Marketing and worked on the Brits.
First CD you ever bought: Hits 92
Favourite drink: Love a glass of vino!
Last film you watched: Finding Nemo (again)
Tell us a joke: The price of a seasonal train ticket going up!
Which campaign would you promote if you were an affiliate: Worldvision because of the economic climate as it is; Worldvision do fantastic work and need our help in promoting their charity!
One last crucial question…Pepsi or Coca cola?: Diet Coke
