I saw an interesting thread on Affiliates4U about freebies. It seems some affiliates are absolutely inundated with gifts and incentives. And some hardly get diddly squat. I'm afraid I fall into the latter category.

I think that's probably because for a long time I spread myself rather thin and like a kid in a sweetshop, wanted to try everything, my earnings probably haven't shown up on the radar of any one network or merchant, although that's changed a bit of lately my I'm really pleased with how my PPC campaigns are going, with 2 decent performing sites dedicated to one merchant.

So what have I received? Well, as I said, not much, but coincidentally the day after reading the thread, I did get a free pen from Buy.at (which has some funny sticky err label things (sorry no idea what they're called) concealed inside it). They also sent me a party popper. I'm going to put it away for special and who knows what grand occasional will merit me bringing out the party popper. I think they just sent that to remind me I'm still in with a shout on their bringing buy.at to you promotion.

Like a few other people, I got the Ann Summers condom a few weeks ago. My website that the freebie related to is called Naughty Underwear and I was a little suprised to see a letter come through the door addresses to "Rob Powell, Naughty Underwear, blah blah". Come on guys, at least put my company name on it too and make me look less like a perve to the postman.

My most valuable freebie was a £75 M&S gift voucher direct from a merchant a few years ago. So that's it - the complete low down on my miserable haul of freebies!

Labels: affiliate marketing, freebies