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A Christmas bonus and more from Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Charity, Charity, Christmas, Christmas Promotion, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys

Hi affiliates,



First off, we want to thank you for everything you have done to support Present Aid this year. We’ve got a number of festive updates to share with you, so please read on to find out more.



A Christmas bonus


We want to help you earn more and support a good cause this Christmas. To help you we’ve put together a special incentive between 17 November and 17 December:

  • 17 October to 16 November 2014 - 0 orders generated - 50% more commission - that's a total of 15% commission on each transaction.
  • 17 October to 16 November 2014 - 1 or more orders generated - 75% more commission - that's a total of 17.5% commission on each transaction.

With the average value for orders at £35 in October, this could give you an average of £5.25 at 15% commission, or £6.13 at 17.5% commission per transaction.



UK Aid Match


Christian Aid has been successful in its bid for UK aid matched funding which will support the life-changing work we’re doing to improve maternal health within communities in Kenya. To support this initiative there are six gifts on Present Aid which are worth twice their value when purchased between now and 6 February 2015. The gifts include baby weighing scales, a mobile health clinic and bricks.



Visit our UK Aid Match page for details.



Present Aid Christmas shop – now open


Visit our Christmas shop to find everything from best sellers like the goat and a chicken, to quirky new gifts like be a superhero for the day and chocolate goodness. To make life easier, you can also find gifts broken down by categories like gifts for her and gifts for him.



Don’t forget: because we offer e-cards and print-at-home cards up until Christmas day itself, you’ll be able to earn commission from Present Aid right up until to Christmas day.



Please note: our mail at home cards have a last order date of 15th December.



New banners


We’ve added a range of new Christmas banners and textlinks to the creative library. These are available in a range of sizes in a .gif format. The new banner groups are called Christmas and Christmas Pool.


Bricks advert for Present Aid





****We’re also happy to provide flash banners on request. Please let me know if you require these or any additional creative****



Please ensure you use creatives provided in the AWIN interface as they include tracking that enables us to allocate this to the affiliate channel.



Finally, see our top performing gifts from October, which include 3 of our new gifts:



1. A child's school materials


2. A chicken


3. A sheep


4. A goat


5. Antibiotics for a sick child


6. Kid goat (NEW)


7. Floating garden


8. Piglets (NEW)


9. Chocolate goodness (NEW)


10. A bicycle



If you have any opportunities or any questions about our gifts or incentives, please contact me directly by emailing tmalone@christian-aid.org and I will be happy to get back to you.



Best wishes,



Tom Malone

New gifts and bonus commission from Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Charity, Charity, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, News, Promotion

Dear Affiliates,



We've added a great selection of new gifts to the Present Aid website. You'll now find more than 60 gifts available to purchase ranging from the humble chicken to the quake resistant house... but, no matter which gift people buy they'll be helping to fund Christian Aid's vital work to end poverty around the world.



To celebrate the addition of the new gifts and to mark our birthday we're thanking everyone who has bought a gift, and you, for helping Present Aid raise over £16 million.







To further mark the occassion we're also rewarding anyone who purchases a Present Aid gift prior to 15 October with a free pack of fridge magnets while stocks last.



And we're not leaving our affiliates out either. We're offering any affiliate who makes a sale between 29 September and 12 October 25% bonus commission - a total of 12.5% commission on each transaction.



To help you achieve this, we've added new banners to the creative library and we've updated our product feed to include information about all the new gifts.







Please ensure you use creatives provided in the AWIN interface as they include tracking that enables us to allocate this to the affiliate channel. If you are unsure, please email us to verify this for you.



We'll be in touch again soon with more information about our plans for Christmas, but if you have any opportunities or would like to discuss any of the above, email me directly at tmalone@christian-aid.org and I will be happy to get in touch with you.



Best wishes,



Tom Malone
The Present Aid Affiliate Team

Summer update from Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Charity, Charity, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, News, UK

Hi affiliates,

Hope you are enjoying the summer! We’ve got some updates about Present Aid that we would like to share with you.

New gifts – coming this September
Congratulations to the winner of our Easter competition to choose a new gift. Jane decided on Loroco seeds which are a completely new gift to Present Aid.

Jane went on to explain why she chose the seeds: "My reasoning is that people's basic needs need to be catered for at all times, whether or not there is a disaster or refugee situation. I also thought that the low cost of the gift would make it suitable for children to buy, or people to give as extra gifts, and anyone wanting to make a bigger contribution could buy several of them.

"It also speaks personally to me as my husband runs a very successful blog about growing food in our little kitchen garden!"

The full list of new gifts are set to be revealed at the start of September and we’ll send you more information about these ahead of the launch.

Product feed
We have recently updated our product feed following feedback. The up-to-date version is live and can be accessed from the Links and Tools section of our merchant profile. We will also update our product feed with new gifts when these are introduced in September.

Top ten gifts
Here are the top 10 gifts from June are below, when the average order value was £31.50:

A goat
Books, stationery and uniform
A chicken
Antibiotics for a sick child
A lap desk for a child
Hand tools
Training and education bundle
A month's food for a family
An emergency kit
A flock of ducks

Key gifts over the summer

Green theme
While we prepare to settle in for the final stages of this year's World Cup we're encouraging people to give a hand to all those who would love a perfect patch of greenery for their livelihoods.

Weddings
A gift from Present Aid can help make a couple's wedding day extra special by giving a unique gift that brings happiness to others across the world. We've put together the perfect selection of gifts to help the happy couple celebrate.

A dry summer?
Summer is finally here and we've had a few weeks of sun to enjoy. While we have easy access to clean water during the warm weather, Present Aid offers gifts that can help people who don’t, so that they have access to safe water.

Please get in touch if you have any questions at all about our program or projects.

Many thanks,

Tom
The Present Aid affiliate team

Easter gifts, increased commission & a special competition from Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Affiliate Window, Charity, Charity, Competitions, Easter, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, News, Offers/Promotions, UK

Hi affiliates,

We’re getting ready for Easter and there’s more than one reason why you should be promoting us in April.

Because we’ve asked our supporters to tell us what type of gifts they want to see, we know that the majority of our gifts we offer are well received by our supporters.

Easter competition ‘Spot the missing gift’

Therefore this Easter, we’ve decided to offer one lucky person a chance to help us choose a new gift - that could end up being our next bestseller! To enter, supporters simply need to ‘spot the missing’ gift from the picture and submit their entry online.

The competition runs from the 31st March until 21st April 2014 - and there are three runner up prizes in the form of a cuddly toy, eggsellent!
Banners for the competition and our main Easter gifts are now available in the library:

Easter banner

Present Aid Easter banner

Competition banner

Present Aid Easter competition

The other reason is of course because it’s Easter and we’ve compiled a list of gifts ideal for giving this month - whilst earning an increased commission of 12% on all transactions from today, 7th April, until 21st April 2014. Browse the Easter gift page for egg-strordinary gifts that will make someone's life much better.

The top ten gifts from last month are below and the average order value was £25.

  • A goat
  • Books, stationery and uniform
  • A chicken
  • A floating garden
  • Antibiotics for a sick child
  • Ducklings
  • Hand tools
  • Three mosquito nets
  • Training and Education bundle
  • A flock of ducks

We’ll be in touch again shortly to update you on our campaign to support Christian Aid Week - but do get in touch beforehand if you have any questions, or would like any more information.

Many thanks,

Tom
The Present Aid affiliate team

Valentines shop & prize draw at Present Aid (1456)

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Charity, Charity, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, News, Offers/Promotions, UK, Valentine's Day

Dear Affiliates

As Valentine’s Day is on its way, we wanted to let you know about our plans and specifically, how your customers can get a sweet deal this year.

• Rediscover the Valentine’s shop – We’ve put together a selection of editor’s picks that are ideal for that special person.

• Sweet competition - We’re giving customers the chance to win one of three packs of Divine Chocolate – when they buy a gift from the Valentine’s shop Find out the terms and conditions by visiting our Valentines Shop.

• Valentines creatives - Updated banners have been added to the interface to overwrite those from last year and are now labelled ‘Valentine’s Day’. You’ll be able to find these and refreshed text links in the creative library:

• New generic banners – As mentioned in our last broadcast, we have recently added a new range of generic banners to our creative library, and are labelled as ‘Generic 2014’. There are a few different varieties to choose from, including the chicken maths creative, the maths pool and the animated pool:

• Other activity – Look out for a number of Valentine’s themed social media updates on the Christian Aid Facebook page and Twitter account over the Valentine’s period and if you haven’t already, you can sign up to our emails, to see what we’ll be sending to our supporters.

To round off this update, see below our top 10 bestsellers for January where the average order value was more than £43:
• A goat
• A chicken
• Books, stationery and uniform
• Antibiotics for a sick child
• A floating garden
• Blankets and bed linen
• Ducklings
• Basic household pumping well
• Seeds for 10 families
• A month’s food for a family

If there is anything else you would be interested in doing to support our activity or any further information you would like about Present Aid, please feel free to contact me by email – tmalone@christian-aid.org – and I’ll be happy to help.
Best wishes

Tom Malone
The Present Aid Affiliate team

Thank you from Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Charity, Charity, Christmas, Christmas Promotion, News, Seasonal Promotions, UK, Update Type, Updates

Dear affiliates,

Happy New Year from the Present Aid team!

As we ease into the New Year, we wanted to remind you that our programme operates all year round and although we see a significant amount of activity over Christmas, we also promote other key moments such as Valentine’s Day, Easter etc. – so be sure to read our newsletters in the coming weeks!

So firstly, thank you for all your fantastic work over the Christmas period. Some of the highlights include:
·         Together you generated over £6,500 in revenue for Present Aid, netting an impressive 4.69% conversion rate!

·         Over the Christmas period, we've calculated that all of the purchases made through Present Aid could have bought more than 25,580 chickens or over 46,048 antibiotics for sick children

·         New gift, ‘A chicken’ managed to knock everyone’s favourite ‘A goat’ off the top spot for bestselling gifts, making the top 10 look like this…
A chicken
A goat
Antibiotics for a sick child
Books, stationery and uniform
A floating garden
A month's food for a family
Ducklings
Hand tools
20 rapid diagnostic malaria kits
Blankets and bed linen

·         The average order value over the Christmas period was over £35, which would have secured a commission of £5.25 per order, for people that took part in our Christmas bonus promotion.

Secondly, this is a first for us, but we’re seeing a 16 fold increase in our January revenue, which looks to be the result of a few group gifts being set up with high value gifts. This is fantastic and again, thank you for pairing us up with these supporters.

All that leaves us to say is that we have a new generic creative in the library:

So please do ensure you use these banners – so that we can continue to track all of your activity.

We'll be looking at rotating all our banners in the near future and as part of this we'll be retiring our wedding banners and overwriting our Christmas 2013 banners with the banner above.

We’ll be in touch again shortly to update you on our Valentine’s Day activity – but do get in touch beforehand if you have any questions, or would like any more information on Present Aid.

Many thanks,
Tom Malone

Present Aid incentive extended

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Affiliate Incentive, Charity, Charity, Christmas, Christmas Promotion, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Offers/Promotions, UK

Dear Affiliate,

Thank you so much for your excellent work in driving sales to Present Aid over in the run up to Christmas.

You may have seen in the AWIN newsletter and our programme page that we’ve decided to extend the incentive we ran in November, to December as well.
To recap, simply:
• Generate up to 5 sales you’ll earn our standard 10% commission
• Generate 6 – 10 sales and we’ll give you 12.5% commission
• Generate more than 10 sales and we’ll give you 15% commission (a 50% increase on our standard rate!)

With the average value for orders at £39 in November, this could give you an average commission of £5.85 per transaction.

While the date for sending cards by post to arrive in time for Christmas has now passed, don’t forget that it’s still possible to promote our e-cards and print-at-home cards. As these can be ordered right up until Christmas day itself, we hope this will boost your commissions through the festive period!

chicken_banner[1]

Take a look at our best sellers from November. As you’ll see the chicken, star of our banners (pictured above and available to you in the creative library) is at the top of the list as the most popular gift of the month.
1 A chicken
2 Antibiotics for a sick child
3 A goat
4 Books, stationery and uniform
5 A floating garden
6 Hand tools
7 Ducklings
8 20 rapid diagnostic malaria kits
9 A high nutrition food supplement
10 Blankets and bed linen

Don’t forget to link to the Present Aid Christmas shop, where you’ll find Present Aid gifts to fit every budget.

That’s it for this year, but if you have any opportunities or would like to discuss any of the above, email me directly at tmalone@christian-aid.org and I will be happy to get in touch with you.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year,

Tom Malone
The Present Aid Affiliate Team

Get ready for Christmas with Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Affiliate Incentive, Charity, Charity, Christmas, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, News, UK

Dear Affiliate,

Now that the festive season is approaching, read on to find out what we’re doing for Christmas and how you can earn more during this time!

Present Aid Christmas shop – now open – There are new items such as a chicken and a home based care kit to staple Christmas favourites like the goat and bicycle – and because we offer e-cards and print-at-home cards up until Christmas day itself - we believe this will help to increase your commissions significantly in December.

Please note that our mail to home cards have a last order date of 13 December.

All gifts can be found under convenient headings including ‘Essential for kids’, ‘Essentials for him’, ‘Essential for her’ etc.

You can also find a selection of our new Christmas banners and textlinks in the creative library. These are available in a range of sizes in a .gif format.

Present Aid Christmas Cracker banner

****We’re also happy to provide flash banners on request. Please let me know if you require these or any additional creative****

Please ensure you use creatives provided in the AWIN interface as they include tracking that enables us to allocate this to the affiliate channel. If you are unsure, please email us to verify this for you.

There's still time to take advantage of our special incentive for November if you missed it earlier this month. You could earn up to 50% more commission:

  • Generate up to 5 sales you’ll earn our standard 10% commission.
  • Generate 6 – 10 sales and we’ll give you 12.5% commission.
  • Generate more than 10 sales and we’ll give you 15% commission!

With the average value for orders at £43 in October, this could give you an average commission of £6 per transaction.

Finally, see our top performing gifts from October, which include 3 of our new gifts:

  1. A goat
  2. A herd of goats
  3. Send a child to school
  4. A young cow
  5. 10 chicks
  6. A flock of ducks
  7. One chicken
  8. A sheep
  9. A well
  10. Seeds for 10 families

That’s all for now, but if you have any opportunities or would like to discuss any of the above, email me directly at tmalone@christian-aid.org and I will be happy to get in touch with you.

Best wishes,

Tom Malone
The Present Aid Affiliate Team

PS - we also want to say a huge thank you to all of you who supported Present Aid during our birthday competition. We had some great entries which made it difficult to choose the winners, but we did and you can see the three winning entries here - https://www.presentaid.org/content/present-aid-birthday-competition-winners

New gifts and a birthday incentive from Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Affiliate Incentive, Charity, Charity, Competitions, Gifts, Gadgets & Toys, News, Product Launches, UK

Dear Affiliate,

As the festive seasons draws near, we've added a selection of new gifts to the site. In addition to top gifts such as the goat and a well, we've introduced gifts like a lap desk for a child and more items below £10, such as food supplements and antibiotics which can be viewed on this page: New gifts 2013.

In addition to this, it’s our birthday this month and we’ve decided to give you and our supporters a chance to celebrate with us!

Firstly, our supporters can enter our competition to be in with a chance of winning one of three gifts provided by our partners: a hand woven scarf, delicious organic Malawian honey or a pack of Nicaraguan Coffee. This is now live and will run until Tuesday 15th October - entries will be based on the best limerick/poem about Present Aid.
Present Aid birthday competition - prizes

Full details are available here.

So what will you get? To coincide with our supporter promotion, we’re offering you the chance to earn up to 50% more commission in October.

Simply continue to generate sales in the month of September and you’ll earn 50% more commission in October!

To help you uplift your performance, get our text links for the new gifts and banners from our programme page.

Thanks for all your hard work for Present Aid this year, if you have any opportunities or would like to discuss any of the above, email me directly - tmalone@christian-aid.org.

Good luck!

Tom Malone
The Present Aid Affiliate Team

Last minute Father's Day ideas from Present Aid

Written by PresentAid on . Posted in Programme Launches

Dear Affiliates,

This year we've chosen to promote Father's Day and what's more, with our e-card and print at home cards - gifts can be bought right up until the 16th June.
We have specially designed Father's Day cards which can be found here and Father's Day banners are now available in the creative library.

 

 

 

So whether he's the sporty type or prefers to be in the garden, we have a selection of gifts to celebrate that important man in your life.

Visit our website - Father's Day gift ideas to see our top suggestions for Father's Day gifts.

Whatever you're up to this weekend, we hope you make it a special one.
Best wishes

Jo Wilson
The Present Aid Affiliate Team