Affiliate Wish List – New Zealand

The most frustrating thing when setting up a New Zealand based website selling affiliate products is the lack of NZ companies with affiliate programs. There are quite a few in the books and music industries but that’s about it. When planning my Little Boys Toys website, I wrote an affiliate wishlist including all the types of products I wanted to include on my site.

I would like to invite all New Zealand affiliate marketers to add to it and we can eventually convince more website owners to setup an affiliate program for their products. If you have a type of product or specific company you would like added to the list, please email me or use the comment form below.

The New Zealand Affiliate Wishlist

• Sports Shop (kids balls, soccer goals, cricket sets, trampolines, boogie boards etc)
• Stationery Shop (craft supplies, art paper, crayons etc)
• Kids Clothes (Pumpkin Patch, other NZ brands)
• Memberships & tickets (Auckland Zoo, Kelly Tarltons etc)
• Bike Shop (kids bikes, scooters, helmets etc)
• Grocery Retailer

If you have a type of product or specific company you would like added to the list, please email me or use the comment form below.

Your Brand on an Amazon Store

Once you become an Amazon associate, one of the selling options available to you is to setup your own aStore.

This is a fully functional shop selling Amazon products but with your own branding and logo. This can appear as a stand-alone shop (see example) in which case it will have an Amazon address, or inside your website (see example) in which case it will have your address, logo and branding. Some other great features of aStore are:

• ability to add your own comments to every category and product
• automatic navigation including a link to your own website
• options to show Similar Items or Wish List items on the sidebar

Sample aStore

I have just setup by own aStore selling books, toys, dvds, clothing etc for little boys. It took me just over an hour, and is integrated into my website. Visit my new aStore…

You may not have realised but Amazon sells everything from books to clothing to computers to toys to kitchenware etc etc. If your market is the US or international, this is a quick easy and proffessional way to setup a great affiliate website. Click on the banner below and then on the Associates link at the bottom of the page to join Amazon’s affiliate program.

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Multiple Photos in a Post with PicasaWeb

If your blog posts include lots of photos, you’re probably getting frustrated uploading them one by one and still not being able to create a uniform look on your post.

The PicasaWeb plugin allows you to upload as many photos as you like all at once, you type a caption for each one on one screen, then just paste one line of code into your post. Photos appear uniform (you choose the exact size you want) with a caption below each one. When you upload your photos, you create a new album so each post is linking to a particular album. See http://www.southcityauctions.co.nz/catalogue/ as an example of what your post will look like.
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