Free Delivery On Everything At IWOOT

For one week and one week only (unless extended), standard delivery at IWOOT will cost nothing. So customers don’t have to wonder who ships for how much and how quickly, they can simply try for free our great delivery service with all it’s magnificent packaging and bubbles (which are a good read in themselves). Free delivery offer starting now, live until 4pm, Friday the 10th.

Here are some T&Cs and banners:

• This offer is valid on orders placed before 4pm on Friday 10th July 2009.
• This offer applies to UK mainland standard deliveries only.
• This offer does not apply to orders shipped outside of mainland UK.
• This offer is not valid on premium delivery charges, and cannot be used as a discount towards such charges.
• I Want One Of Those reserves the right to refuse orders placed with this promotion.

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Want to know what’s happening in Gadget World? Want to be the first to check out our latest Nerf Blasters, Micro Cameras, Talking Stags or selection of Alcohol Breath Testers, if that’s your thing? You better sign up to our Affiliate Window campaign then, we’re merchant # 1202, and we welcome everybody in peace on the programme. No nasty suspending of inactive affiliates with us! Once you’re signed up, you’ll recieve exciting news regularly from me and Julie. See the latest one below for a taster.

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Digital Luggage Scale Was £14.99 Now £13.49 Moontent Was £31.49 Now £28.34 Freeloader Solar Chargers Was £29.99 Now £26.99 Wind Up Camp Light Was £24.99 Now £22.49 Waterbuoy Was £11.99 Now £10.79 Trace Me Luggage Tags Was £12.99 Now £11.69
Julian Moskov Online Marketing Manager julian.moskov@iwantoneofthose.com Julie Wood Senior Partnership Manager jwood@affiliatewindow.com		IWOOT offers a promo code available to all affiliates to use to help drive conversion: AOFF5 We can also produce bespoke codes do get in touch to find out more.

Spy On Your Pet

Have you ever wondered what your furry little friend gets up to while you’re out of the room or at work? Well now you can find out with the Pet’s Eye View Camera - in stock now at I Want One Of Those.

IWOOT Travel Gadgets Promotion… Starting Friday

PROMOTION HAS ENDED

With the holiday season fast approaching and people jetting off to have a bit of sun, we want to help out with the cost of all these must-have travel gadgets. For the next two weeks IWOOT is running a Travel Gadget Promotion where we cut the price of everything in the category by 10%. Have a look at our travel gadgets now, but don’t forget we’re launching this Friday night.

Here are some banners to help spread the word:

(banners will also be available thourgh the AWIN control panel)

IWOOT Amongst The Top 5 Fathers Day Sites

Not sure how this bit of info is useful to you, our lovely affiliates, but Hitwise have announced the top recipients of Fathers Day traffic. They looked at 479 sites and decided that IWOOT was in at number.. 5! Brilliant. Here’s even a picture from Hitwise on Twitter to help grasp the idea.

I’m 46% Right

I was thinking about our bestsellers and how I try to give affiliates an indication of what is going to sell around particular sales periods. Hope you find them helpful!

The art of predicting a bestseller is.. well, an art. I mean, how can you tell what people are actually going to buy? I’ve heard of ways of guesstimating this and in fact there are quite a few guys around our office who get paid to know which products will sell. I have a simpler approach, using more Analytics data and less hunches, feelings and intuition.

So I decided to have a look at my last list of Top 25 Fathers Day Bestsellers and see how many of them actually made it to the top this Fathers Day. I expected to boast about how right I was, but the results seem to suggest differently:

So out of my Top 25, I got 46% right, or 12 products, and I got 14 wrong. I mean, you should get suspicious at this point, as my Top 25 list contains 26 products. It’s not that 14 of the products were rubbish, they weren’t and many of them sold extremely well. The fact is that the following 14 products just sold better:

So what’s the moral of the story? That you are better off doing exactly the opposite of what I say? No, I think the key here is to really think about the products you use in your emails or websites. Bestsellers will be different for each of your audiences and to nail down what works best you need a combination of common sense, intuition and testing. So use my suggestions, but do have a browse through the site yourself too.

Lastly, if you do feature our products frequently and would like to run a competition for your users to win something from IWOOT, drop me a line and maybe we can donate something.

Blog, Digg, Poke & Follow

Recently all IWOOTers here have gone web 2.0 crazy and we in Marketing are no longer the only ones to blog, digg, poke and follow. Yesterday we even met a company so advanced in their digital ways that the proposed “blogging/retwittering sort-of-aggregator-type social platform” confused even their own salesmen. In any case, I’m just hoping that these ever smarter web toys don’t decide one day to rise against humanity, claim independence and enslave us all to link-build eternally. (I know, I know, they already have.)

Not sure how I got sidetracked into such Apocalyptic visions, when I in fact wanted to show you all the new stuff that’s going on. First, we have a new blog. Beautifully designed and quickly getting filed up with strange posts, it’s the official IWOOT blog. Next, IWOOT is twittering - please do follow us there, we need support for our young Twitter account. (I am even authorised to bribe you dear affiliates with branded 5% discounts..) And there’s more - our Facebook page has been resurrected from the dead and has been given a good dusting. It is now so presentable and up-to-date that I can share it with you - click here. Lastly, if YouTube is your thing, join us on our channel.

And before I leave you to continue your wonder around the net - have you noticed the Fathers Day traffic?! All these faithful sons and daughters buying solar chargers and lights, music gadgets and helicopters? Fathers Day is definitely in full swing, so grab some of our banners and join the party!

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-Julian

25 Ideas For Fathers Day Gifts

Stuck for a Fathers Day present ideas? We actually have 89* on our Fathers Day page. We’ve got tons of retro sweets, all sorts of BBQ tools, gadgets that convert between pretty much any audio format known to man, the obligatory drink-related gizmos, musical instruments and so on and so on. I’ve listed 25 of them below. And before writing to me to complain that only a drunk baboon would buy this or that product for their dad, can I point out that these bestsellers have nothing to do with me and are based on sales history. Have a browse!

Film to SD Scanner
Son of Hibachi BBQ
Portable Barbeques
Lanterns
Retro Sweet Hamper
AQ Wireless Outdoor Speakers
Grilliput - Grilliput and Firebowl
Hexbug
Henry the Hoover
Zpen
SLP2 Survival Tool
The Intelligent Wine Cooler
Fridge Magnet Photo Frame
Retro Sweet Jar
PocketSurfer 2 R
Stealth Speed Boat
iBlock Speaker
VCR to PC
Pen Fishing Rod
Gnome Bowling
Solar Charger
Instant Music Vinyl and Cassette Ripper
Sat Nag
Retro Telephones
Stylophone
Trace Me Luggage Tag

* I didn’t count them! Guesstimate based on the phone number of a salesman that just called.

Fathers Day Gifts from IWOOT

There is one more big event before we plunge into the usual seasonal silence of summer and it is Fathers Day. Foolishly neglected by some, it is actually quite a big deal for us gifts & gadgets sellers and for our top affiliates. So we’ve redone our Fathers Day Gifts page, suggested some bestsellers and provided banners for you to spread the word.

This year Fathers Day falls on the 21st of June and related traffic has already started to pick up so it’s good time to start working on it. Have a good one! (I would do the same only if I could get out of Google Insights… it’s so addictive!)

Affiliate Timesaving Tip #1

We’re not lazy at IWOOT, but some things are best done in as few clicks as possible - and deeplinking is one of them.

Affiliate Window Deeplink Generator Plugin Thingy to the rescue!

Just enter your Awin username/password on installation, go to one of our wonderful product pages and click the button:

… and it’ll open up a window with a deeplink automatically with your affiliate ID included.