Unfortunately not all Affiliate networks are as generous as Market Ace, so this year I’m going to keep a running list of the gifts we get as Christmas presents. Last year was a real mix of the good, bad and ugly and then there are the Networks that just don’t bother sending anything. I’m not going to mention names but…it starts with Trade and ends in Doubler. As a rough estimate I think our sites have generated over half a million in sales at TradeDoubler over the last four years, god knows how much you need to generate to get a Christmas present outta them, and they wonder why I’d rather promote Jackpot Joy with Market Ace!

I know that it’s not good form to moan about Christmas presents you receive, but if some networks insist on playing Scrooge, then I’m playing the spoilt brat!

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me…

Chocolates From St Minver ~ Not Bad, Not Bad

Chocolates From St. Minver:
Top marks for St Minver being the first present down the chimney! To be honest we don’t send St Minver lots of players so I wouldn’t really expect anything from them anyway! There more like a distant cousin you’ve only ever met once and then bump into on Christmas day.

To be fair to St Minver the box of chocolates look good and it’s presented like a traditional advent calendar, chocolates are always a winner in my book! The box also has a promo code on for Affiliates which is actually good marketing. St Minver are a network that promote mainly bingo sites like Butlins Bingo and Littlewoods Bingo, you can check them out here. So this year is already off to a pretty good start, lets see what tomorrow brings!

So Christmas is well and truly over and the new year is here, so what did Santa bring? Not a lot actually, apart from Paddy Power and Market Ace who sent us some lovely gifts (Thanks Guys).

It seems the credit crunch is hitting the gambling sector after all, I didn’t even get a card from most of our partners!

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We’d like to thank John from Kitbag for the generous prize, Burnley fan John was dismayed to find out the money will be ‘wasted’ on tickets to watch Manchester United at Old Trafford!

Other Affiliate managers could learn a lot from Josh’s and AffUtd.com approach to affiliates, in return for facilitating tickets AffUtd got the run of our websites for six months! Another big thank you also goes to the four United fans who stopped their taxi to pick up me and my son three miles from the ground with less than 1 hour to go before kick off! If it wasn’t for them then I think we would have missed the match. The authorities in Rome couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery. No buses to the ground and no buses after the match back to the city centre! The result of the match gave my son bragging rights for the next year and left me still waiting to see United lift the European Cup in person ~ next season Madrid beckons.