Friday was a good post day I received a couple of bottles of wine from my good friend and affiliate podcaster extraordinaire Fraser Edwards.

Fraser has recently acquired the websites www.redwine.co.uk and www.whitewine.co.uk in order to get the word out rather than mess about with business cards he decided to get a few bottles of Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc printed up instead and distribute them throughout the internet community.

So far I have enjoyed the Merlot here is my short review.

The dominant features of this wine are black cherry, blackberry, a trace of vanilla and just a hint of nutmeg, all in a well structured wine with soft tannins. It is the ideal type of wine to age, because it has a great deal of character plus satisfactory structure for lengthy development over time. You could if you wanted drink it directly with food, or lay it down for a few years to mature.

Actually those tasting notes are complete bollocks partly made up and partly plagiarism, while some of it may be true and it was an excellent bottle of red I’m no wine connoisseur more Ozzy Osborne than Oz Clarke in my drinking habits.

Incidentally Fraser is currently running a competition where you can win a case of wine this closes at the end of July 2009, look on the sites for more details or follow @whiteandred on twitter and re-tweet to enter.

Last Autumn Clarke Duncan of Director of affiliate marketing network Paid On Results handed me a business card, “this is our new corporate image” he told me, impressed I have been waiting with eager anticipation for the changes to be implemented on their website and now the wait is over the re-brand has begun here is the formal press release:

Paid On Results this week announced a rebrand as part of it’s strategy to grow and transform the business. This move will help to position the company to showcase its unrivaled knowledge of affiliate marketing, innovative technology and supportive staff.

The new branding includes a new logo and corporate colour scheme which better reflects the company’s vibrant and exciting vision for the future of ecommerce. Developed after months of internal and external consultation, the new image represents the core values of Paid On Results – friendliness, clarity, simplicity, dynamism, excellence. The new brand identity has been applied to all Paid On Results marketing materials including the website, blog, presentations and stationery.

Clarke Duncan, Director and Shareholder, spoke about the company’s new identity:-

“This is an exciting time for Paid On Results as we continue to grow steadily and recruit additional staff in the face of the global recession. The rebranding reflects this excitement and optimism. The future for Paid On Results sees further growth aided by an increased emphasis on sales and marketing. Today Paid On Results can look to the future with confidence, largely because of its strong background in bringing to the fore innovative technology and in employing knowledgeable, friendly staff. We will continue to build our independent business based on these strong foundations. “

About Paid On Results:

Established in 2002, Paid On Results has always been at the cutting edge of affiliate marketing in the United Kingdom. The company has developed an incomparable comprehension of the market and has built up positive relationships with many of the country’s largest and most successful affiliates. This combination of groundbreaking, yet extremely user friendly technology plus experienced, knowledgeable account management has made Paid On Results a potent force in the industry.

The first full month of the @AffiliateBlogs twitter account retweeting Internet Marketing Blogs is over the twitter account now has 901 followers. As promised here is what has been popular throughout June.

Top 10 Tweets via @AffiliateBlogs in June 2009

Huge outcry in America at the moment, from today, 12th April 2009 Amazon.com has appointed its self as net nanny and is removing sales rankings from adult erotica books, this has the impact that regardless of how many volumes they sell they will not appear on the best seller listings, therefore anyone not actually searching for a particular book will not see them.

Some websites are reporting that this new policy is specifically aimed at gay and lesbian titles however others are saying this censorship is more widespread and affecting all adult material.

Here is a copy of the letter that has been going out to authors:

“In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude “adult” material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature. Hence, if you have further questions, kindly write back to us.

Best regards,

Ashlyn D

Member Services
Amazon.com Advantage”

I personally don’t run any adult sites however as an affilate I can see how this situation could be turned to our advantage, by specifially targeting the right key phrases the savvy internet marketer will now be able reel in a lot of sales from this genre which would previously have gone direct to Amazon.com.

I have just discovered that my voucher codes website was mentioned in an article in The Sun way back on 20th of January so its only taken me 10 weeks to realise, check out the article here I try a week as a voucher vulture.

Just scroll down to Friday and you will see vouchersuk.co.uk in the useful sites box.

So thank you very much Judy Cogan and The Sun for the mention its much appreciated.

Has it brought in much traffic? In a word no, a grand total of 112 visitors to date but I’m not complaining my humble site is listed in the company of the big boys and that means a lot to me.