It is almost time to say goodbye before Christmas. All of us here at CJ wish you a very Merry Christmas and we wanted to thank every single one of our partners for all your hard work over the year.

We have made a  special little something from the CJ team to give you a little giggle. Click to see a few of the team making Elves of themselves.

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Wednesday night saw the much-anticipated ValueClick christmas party which included all of the UK businesses.

It started off in the office with some Champagne, mince pies and Secret Santa. Brezo was voted to be one of Santa’s LIttle Helpers and we thought she did a wonderful job

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Doug Scott is doing a poll on his blog about who is the pretty boy of affiliate marketing. We IMPLORE you to vote for Jason Baker here. We think he is beautiful (actually we think that in certain lights he looks a little bit like Shrek but if you look into his eyes you will see true beauty shining back at you).

See below for evidence that not only is he an amazing looker but also that he is domesticated as well.

VOTE FOR JASON!

In September E-consultancy conducted a survey into the state of affiliate marketing in the UK – what proportion it made of budgets in 2008 vs 2007.  The survey dealt with 259 merchants and 150 agencies and came up with some rather interesting and surprising information.

The first thing which struck me was this stat:

‘Merchants reported that 5 or fewer affiliates are driving 80% of their affiliate sales or sign ups’

This was particularly interesting in combination with the fact that:

‘..almost 70% of merchants are spending less than two hours per week communicating with their affiliates…’ Read the rest of this entry »

Hello everyone and welcome to Commission Junction UK’s new blog.

We have been working on this now for a few months, building out the structure (thanks to all who helped) and pulling together content. We want this to be useful, we want it to be interesting, we want it to be a place where affiliates, advertisers and agencies can come to read something which can help you grow your business.

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To welcome to you to our new blog we have decided to have a lovely big competition to win a trip to Commission Junction University in Santa Barbara, California (see our blog posts about it here and the official event site here).

All you have to do to win the competition is to ’take the team’ somehere nice Download the photo I took (not a brilliant photographer I will admit) of some of the team, print it out and take a photo of yourself and the team somewhere special.

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It is more important than ever to get everything you can from your affiliate marketing as everyone feels the burn of the recession. We will be having a guest feature soon about recession-proof affilliate marketing but for now I wanted to tell you about our efforts to maximise the upward curve of seasonality.

Clearly the most effective form of communication is face-to-face. So, following the success of our retail seasonal business meeting day on the 8th of October, we had our travel event last Wednesday at the MWB Offices in Marble Arch.

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