The Firebox Affiliate Blog

Bestselling products for the last month at Firebox

Here are some ideas for some popular products you might want to promote. This list is the top ten selling products for November, based on units sold.

1. Plop Trumps £5.95
This silly game is based on Top Trumps, but uses different types of dung as its subject.

2. Screaming Flying Monkey £4.95
This funny monkey toy can be flung across the room, and makes a screaming sound as it flys. Complete with special monkey mask and cape.

 
3. My Own Morph £9.95
Morph is back and now you can create him yourself. Comes complete with a load of fun accessories and some classic Morph episodes on disc.

4. Stylophone £14.95
A reissue of the classic 70s electronic instrument made popular by Rolph Harris. The new version even allows you to plug in your MP3 player and play along to your fave tracks.

5. Bubblewrap keychain £6.95
If you or someone you know is addicted to bubblewrap this is the perfect product. It recreates the sound and feel of popping the bubbles in a small keychain. Plus for every one hundred clicks it makes a random sound "pop, pop, pop, woof, pop".

6. Batteries

7. Echo Bot £6.95
A fun toy that records any message you want and plays it back when someone goes past. It also looks like a bright orange alien with one eye. Cute.

8. Miracle Fruit Tablets £9.95
These miraclulous berries work temporarily on your tastebuds, making everything taste sweet. Soon you'll be sucking on lemons and drinking vinegar.

9. Mood Beams £9.95
These cute light-up critters phase through different colours, and react to sound. They come in a variety of different colours and styles, including new fiesty Tude Beams.

10. PicoZ MX-1 Extreme £19.95
The smallest remote control helicopter in the world! Truly tiny.

Party On! Products for Christmas shindigs

If you're planning a Christmas party, Firebox has some products that will really make it go with a bang. Every party needs a few talking points to break the ice, and all of these products will help with that.

Ice Shot Glasses from £8.95

These moulds will create shot glasses made from ice. Not only do they look really cool, they save on the washing up! You can also create glasses from a variety of mixers such as orange juice to suit the contents.

Twister £9.95

Have yourself a slightly geeky Christmas- decorations from Firebox

Here's some more Christmas content if you'd like to use it....

If you're sick of ordinary Christmas stuff and want something to make your home and office look a bit different, why not try some of these alternative decorations from Firebox. There's lots of stuff that won't break the bank, including eco friendly lights and space-saving trees.

Christmas Tree Poster £12.95
Short on space? Don't want to carry a massive tree home? Can't afford lots of decorations? Have a sense of humour? Look no further than the Christmas Tree Poster from Firebox. A poster with a picture of a large decorated tree on it, it will make any room look festive without the pain of picking pine needles out of the carpet.

 

Insta-Snow from £5.95

Top predicted sellers at Firebox this Christmas

To help you out with your promotions, here are just some of the gifts we reckon will fly off the shelves this year at Firebox.com:

For her
Flip Digital Video Cameras from £99.95
Why: Well, these cameras are already bestsellers, and make a great Christmas gift. Really easy to use, they have minimal buttons and fit into a pocket or bag.

For him
Brick USB Memory Stick from £24.95
Why: these memory sticks come inside a Lego block! Both cool and functional.

Secret Santa Solved- Gifts for less than £5 for Firebox

Here's an idea for something to promote- Secret Santa gifts. Every year lots of people participate in a Secret Santa draw, mainly at work. One of the rules is often that every gift has to cost less than £5.

So here are some great products we sell for less than £5. And if you combine it with our £5 voucher offer, customers can buy them for the cost of postage only!

Screaming Flying Monkey £4.95
It screams, it flies, it annoys the hell out of everyone around you. Perfect for the office joker.

LockLite £4.95
A mini torch that attaches to your key and helps you get into your house easily in the dark. Get this for the boss- its not too silly.

Star Wars Phone Flashers £4.95
These little phone charms light up and spin when you get a call. Available in Storm Trooper and Darth Vader varieties. Get this for a slightly geeky co-worker, perhaps someone in the IT department.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! its an affiliate on a very cool electric scooter

I'm very pleased to announce the details of our fantastic Christmas incentive.

You could be like this lovely lady and race around on one of our bestselling Ego Electric Street Scootas!

Worth £1000 this scooter not only looks pretty cool, but it runs entirely on electricity, making it eco friendly. It has a top speed of 40 m.p.h so is perfect for the commute to work or the train station. And because its electric its very cheap to run, with even tax and insurance costing less.

We've tried to give everyone a chance of winning this prize, so have devised a prize draw system. This is how you get tickets to the draw:

• Ten sales for Firebox gets you a ticket

• If you were on the Firebox programme last Xmas, every 10 sales you get this year over the number for last year gets you an additional ticket

• If you are new to the programme, your first sale gets you a ticket

• Writing a blog post or putting a page on your site about the Scooter gets you a ticket, e-mail the page to affiliates@firebox.com

• Every time you use our Affiliate Video Player on your site you get a ticket, e-mail us

• Every time you use one of our gift finder banners you get a ticket, e-mail us

• Linking to Firebox using the keywords 'gifts', 'gadgets' or 'toys' from your site gets you a ticket e-mail us

So that's lots of ways you can get a line in our massive ticket spreadsheet. I will be drawing the winner in January, using the random number generator on Random.org.

Any questions please get in touch!

Cheers
Naomi

Fantastic Firebox affiliate £5 voucher offer!

We're giving affiliates a great voucher to promote this year- £5 off with no minimum spend!

To promote this, you have to deeplink to this page on Firebox:

http://www.firebox.com/partners/affxmas08

Users then submit their e-mail address and get sent a unique code for their voucher.

Creative is available through both our networks to promote this, and looks a bit like this:

In Affiliate Future this is in the 'Promotions and Seasonal' creative folder, and in Affiliate Window it is all labelled 'Seasonal- CHRISTMAS voucher'. All banners deeplink to the landing page.

All vouchers expire on the 31st Dec 2008. Any questions or problems please get in touch.

Cheers
Naomi

Christmas Creative (including dynamic stuff)

Its exactly 9 weeks from today until Christmas Eve- don't panic!

Here's all the information you need about our Christmas creative, including what it looks like and where to find it. I'll be putting info about predicted top sellers, offers, incentives etc in different posts just so its easy to identify, but it will all be labelled under the blog category Christmas, and you can see all posts in this category by clicking on it in the right sidebar. Do it now, you know you want to!

Banners

All banners deeplink to relevant seasonal gift categories, which are general gifts, gifts for him, gifts for her, gifts for kids and stocking fillers. You can of course just link straight to these categories using text links too (for how to create Firebox deeplinks on our networks see this post).

The banners are available in a wide variety of sizes, if you need a different one or can't find something to fit e-mail us.

Examples: