[Leader]

To help put some spark into the buyers, I've activated a 10% OFF coupon!

The coupon is good for everything on the site (except shipping), and runs from now until Sept 12, 2005, when I expect to begin shipping.

Coupon code is SAVETEN.

I've uploaded a 124x124 to SaS as well as entering the coupon into the SaS coupon RSS feed.

Happy selling!

[Leader]

:bump:

[womanht]

How about permanent coupons for those who don't want to keep updating our sites. Minimize work on our ends too.

[Leader]

Sorry, no go...I've seen that permanent coupons lose their effectiveness. There's no need for the buyers to "catch the sale" when it never changes!

Of course, you could always do the same thing with coupons as me ( ;) ) and just go for plain ol' rank...
Some people like 'em though.

[womanht]

You are right... as always :-)

With linkshare, they have this coupon DRM which updates a banner or text automatically with the new coupon and new expiry date, each time the old coupon expires.

I think you can do something like that with javascript. Write the script so it displays the latest coupon code and expiry and offer, taken from a file you update regularly. Then your affiliates can copy and paste that script into their sites.

[Leader]

With linkshare, they have this coupon DRM which updates a banner or text automatically with the new coupon and new expiry date, each time the old coupon expires.

I think you can do something like that with javascript. Write the script so it displays the latest coupon code and expiry and offer,
This would really be something best left up to SaS. They'd be able to access programmers a lot better than me... Maybe if you suggest it to Brian, he'll add something like that. Right now they've got the Coupon/Deal RSS, though, so you may be able to use that.

There's a couple of issues I can see with the JavaScript idea:

1) Usually I won't have a coupon running, so if I was the only one in the system, it'd end up having irrelevant "non-coupon" banners show a lot of the time--which would be a problem if it were run in a coupon context,

and

2) Tracking. Such a dynamic system would have to be able to know automatically, on the script side, which aff code to put into the served ads. How LS does this with DRMs (and CJ with SmartZones), I have no idea. I have minimal coding practice. And I've never done the coding side of *any* Javascript stuff...

For this reason especially, I think it'd be better to have the scripting done (and quality-tested) by the network, rather than me trying to hack something together. Sorry, but me hiring a coder for a custom job isn't in the budget at this time.

Also, if SaS were to do it, you'd be able to have other offers rotate in when I didn't have any coupons/specials running. Not that there are any other bulb merchants worth running ( ;) ) but maybe some related items...