Day Trip Media: Perks Of The Trade - Bingo Affiliate Incentives

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Perks Of The Trade - Bingo Affiliate Incentives

If you do a lot of affiliate work, sooner or later you'll spot offers for affiliate incentives. In the Bingo field there's a lot of them about - extra bonuses and competition prizes ranging from cars, to cash, to free mugs. It's a nice little perk, and I've had some nice little treats recently as a result of affiliate incentive schemes. So, in the tradition of many other blogs run by affiliate marketers, I thought I'd give a quick look at some of the treats I've got my mitts on.

One of the first nice incentives I got was an extra £1000 for hitting the next tier of sales with Gala Bingo. Last year I also won a Sony digital camera with Littlewoods Bingo. That came as nice little surprise as at the time, I didn't even know there was an incentive prize on offer. And talking of sod's law, I found out about it just weeks after I'd bought myself a new digital camera. Typical.

It went quiet for a while, there was one other nice prize of a holiday that I'll mention later, but that was it until now. There were plenty of affiliate incentive things going on, but none fell my way. I think Astro Bingo's opportunity to win a car was one of the better ones, but not one I was in the running for as I didn't meet the entry criteria. Then at the end of April, I got a nice mail informing me I'd won an iPhone courtesy of Chit Chat Bingo. I was aware of the competition, but didn't fancy my chances as I'd only referred the one player. Still, it must have been a lucky one as my iPhone is my new favourite gadget.

It didn't end there, there was a £125 bonus from Crown Bingo for sending them 10+ cash players over the last couple of months, a £20 voucher from Ann Summers Bingo and a mug and stickers from Paparazzi Bingo. To top it all, I got a phone call yesterday informing me I'd won a week in Barbados thanks to Foxy Bingo and affiliate future.

The excitement didn't last long as I realised it clashed with other stuff and wouldn't be able to take up the offer. It clashes with other work stuff I have going on, and I'm away the week before for the Bingo Summit and relying on family to do baby sitting duties. As I'm away now, there's no way I can spare the extra time, even for a trip to Barbados. Ah well, easy come, easy go.

The same thing happened last year, I also had been drawn for another trip, that time to Barcelona. It was pretty much the same set of circumstances as the current Barbados trip. Maybe in the future I can win one I can actually take (and take my wife on!)

As for the effectiveness of the incentives, do they make me alter the way I work and promote sites? Well, in truth, nope. I did switch affiliate links for the Barbados trip, but there was no extra promotion. All of these nice little extras have come out of existing practice. I'm not sure how other affiliates work with these incentives - keeping up with promoting who you want to win the incentives from could be a lot of work. Personally it's hard enough keeping up with it all, but as a nice surprise once in a while, it does wonders.

Posted by Dio Bach at 07:59

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