[loxly]

For those of you that might not get these in your email box, either due to your email being full or having an incorrect email in Shareasale, I'll post our Viator Affiliate Newsletters here. Here is our first one:

Wow, what a great start to the Viator Affiliate program on Shareasale. We have only been here a short time, with January being our first full month here and we are already in the Shareasale Network Power Rank Top 100 merchants. That would be thanks to all of our affiliates hard work!

Hopefully you are all getting familiar with the Shareasale tools like:
Make A Page, Datafeed, Product Links, Custom Link Creator, Deals Database (HOT!), and a few widgets. The Deals Database features special deals on Viator.com in already formatted for you to track links, of deals and tours that are not in our regular datafeed. Click here to access the Viator Deals:
http://www.shareasale.com/a-dealscurrent.cfm?search=viator

We have an affiliate support forum on ABestWeb that has threads about the popular topics that most affiliates have questions about, including how to use the above tools, come on over and take a look and join the conversation:

http://forum.abestweb.com/forumdisplay.php?f=496

We have a podcast with Viator Marketing Director Kelly Gillease that tells you how are the best ways to promote Viator and what are the best types of things to promote at different times of the year. Listen to that podcast on the Team Loxly site:

http://teamloxly.com/category/podcasts-with-loxly/

There are also podcasts there that explain how to use Twitter to extend your reach, and some general how to be an affiliate podcasts. Feel free to email me questions and topics to cover in future podcasts.

Finally, here in the bonus I mentioned. Many of you are already active and others of you have us on your "todo" list. We'd like to move up your todo list and as an incentive, we are offering a $10 bonus after your first three bookings are tracked.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us or use the contact info below to instant messenger us. If you add us to Skype or Yahoo, let me know in your request that you are a Viator affiliate.

Deborah Carney and Liz Ababon
Viator Affiliate Program Managers
http://teamloxly.com
Skype: nightfire32
Yahoo IM: loxly64
Twitter: http://twitter.com/loxly and http://twitter.com/eababon

[loxly]

August Viator Newsletter:

Thanks to all of you we are having a *great* travel season. I'm impressed that in a downturned economy the affiliate program is still rocking. A few quick notes and then let you get back to your summer fun! And Congratulations to all of you for getting Viator in the Shareasale Top 15!

Datafeed Updated
The monthly Datafeed update has been done, please check to see if the tours you are featuring have been discontinued or if there are new ones for the destination you focus on. Here is the direct link to our feed, be sure to log into Shareasale first:
http://www.shareasale.com/a-datafeeds.cfm?merchantID=18208

Deals Database
Instead of coupons we have been focusing on providing deals through the Shareasale deals database, where you can download a file of all of the tours that have short term deals. These deals convert *very* well. The tours in the Deals database are *not* included in the regular database because they have defined end dates and most are short term. The dates are clearly included to help you manage keeping fresh and current deals available.
http://www.shareasale.com/a-dealscurrent.cfm?merchantID=18208

Coupon Reminder
If you have outdated or customer submitted coupons on your website you need to remove them. Use links from the Deals Database to populate your coupon or specials pages. No, we aren't handing out coupons (stopped you before you asked! :) ) but some sites have coupons posted that they shouldn't have. This causes customer service issues for both you AND us.

DTM PPC Bidding
If you are asking yourself "What's that?" you probably aren't doing it :) However, if you are marketing Viator via paid advertising in the search engines (PPC) you need to be sure to read our PPC guidelines at:
http://teamloxly.com/viator/viator-paid-click-ppc-rules/

In no case are you allowed to link from a paid search ad directly to Viator. You need to link to a page on your website that has Viator links on it. You are not allowed to make your ad look like you are the official Viator website.

To keep abreast of the latest Viator news be sure to visit our dedicated Affiliate Forum and Support Website:
http://teamloxly.com/viator
http://forum.abestweb.com/forumdisplay.php?f=496

And for podcasts and information to help you run your business even better:
http://teamloxly.com/viator/category/podcasts-with-loxly/

As always, if you need anything, contact any of you Viator affiliate team:
Deborah Carney, Vinny O'Hare and Liz Ababon
http://teamloxly.com/contact

[Kevin]

<sigh>

I really need to get your fishing packages on my site. E-mail me everyday until I do :)