Earn extra commission with Blue Chip Vacations this February

After a record breaking January, Blue Chip Vacations have decided to say thank you to all you affiliates with its latest incentive! If you secure 10 confirmed bookings in February you will automatically go onto the increased commission rate of 6% for the rest of the month. So there couldn’t be a better time to start driving your Blue Chip Vacations’ sales!
With an average booking value of around £700, you could be pocketing £40 per sale you make for us! Now is a fantastic time for sales, with so many of us fancying a sunny summer break in an idyllic South Western retreat. In addition to this, our new website has just launched, offering visitors a more user friendly viewing experience.

Plus, we are running a number of fantastic special offers, including:

The free Coast subscription offer
Any booking for May or October comes complete with a 12 month subscription to the fantastic Coast magazine!
Voucher code: “COAST10”
Deeplink: http://www.bluechipvacations.com/calendar/free-subscription-to-coast-magazine.html

Up to 50% off at the stunning Cary Arms until late March 2010
Prices halved until March 31st at these exclusive luxury seaside cottages.
Deeplink: http://www.bluechipvacations.com/special-offers-on-holiday-cottages-and-apartments/the-cary-arms-from-755pw.htmlas

As well as a host of last minute offers!
Find all the best deals for the next four weeks in our last minute section!
Deeplink: http://www.bluechipvacations.com/lastminute.html!

2010 has been heralded as the year of the staycation so what better time to start boosting your sales!

Also, it is essential that you keep your listings up to date, as the owners of the properties we no longer represent become understandably upset when they still appear on your websites. We try to update the CSV as regularly as possible, with the most recent being uploaded just yesterday. Should you require a list of withdrawn properties from the last year, please do not hesitate to contact us at affiliate@bluechipvacations.com.

Wishing you the best of luck in achieving your 10 sales and a fantastic February for all our affiliates!

Earn an extra £10 on your first sale in February

First Sale Bonus

Are you new to the Blue Chip Affiliate programme?  OR have you signed up but not got around to doing any promotions? Well now is a fantastic time to start working with us and to make your first sale for Blue Chip!

February is always a very busy booking time here at Blue Chip; people are looking ahead to Easter and summer holidays, and average order values stand at over £700.  Standard commission is 5% on every confirmed sale, but throughout February we will be awarding an additional £10 bonus for those affiliates making their first sale for Blue Chip Vacations.

Remember you can’t direct link to Blue Chip from PPC ads on UK search engines, but there are a whole host of other ways to work with Blue Chip.  The datafeed on ShopWindow in upto date and we have just posted some brand new banner creative in a variety of sizes and styles.  If you need a bespoke datafeed, additional images or video creative, or would like to discuss having an exclusive discount then please contact us directly and we should be able to sort something out for you.

So what’s stopping you???

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PPC
Bidding on brand terms relating to Blue Chip Vacations is still prohibited on the Blue Chip programme.

In addition to this, as of 07.10.09 we will no longer be allowing affiliates to direct link from UK paid search campaigns.  You are asked to please refrain from using the bluechipvacations.com or Newquay.bluechipvacations.com URL as the display URL in any PPC adverts on UK search engines as it appears to duplicate our own.  We do, however, continue to encourage all other PPC activity with the use of landing pages & generic terms.

Please use the 30 day period to change or remove the Blue Chip Vacations links from your UK paid search campaigns.  Commissions on any PPC sales made during this period up to 07.10.09 will be honoured even if not validated until after the deadline has elapsed.

Affiliates wishing to carry out paid search campaigns outside of the UK may continue to direct link, but must ensure that their ads are not showing on any UK search engines. Please contact me to check if you need further clarification or would like to discuss promoting Blue Chip Vacations outside of the UK.

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Voucher codes
We are making some significant changes to the way in which we work with Voucher Code sites.  The changes outlined below will come into effect in on 16.09.09.

1. All sales from voucher code sites will be de-duplicated against our own site analytics.  If another affiliate is implicated in the sale and no voucher code has been used, then the commission will be split 50/50 between the Voucher Code site and the earlier referrer.
2. If elapsed time from click to sale is less than 15 mins and no voucher code has been used, then no commission will be awarded to the voucher code site.
3.Only live offers are to be displayed, and must carry full terms and conditions.  All expired codes and offers must be removed from the site within 7 days.

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Cash Back and Reward sites
From 16.09.09 all cash back and reward sites will be set to 4% commission.

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To determine whether the sale has come from a voucher code site or cashback site, we will use the “Promotional Method” categorization within Affiliate Window.  If you promote Blue Chip Vacations with a variety of methods then please contact me to discuss individually.

Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any of the programme changes listed here.  Full programme terms and conditions are listed here for PPC and here for Voucher Codes.

Yes we’ve finally done it – Blue Chip Vacations have moved from
the flat rate £20 per booking to 5% commission on all bookings. We’ve been listening to your requests and are very pleased to be able to offer what is probably the most competitive basic commission rate of any UK self-catering agency.

Have you seen …our AWIN index has gone up again, EPC is currently £0.47 and conversion is 2.03%!

2009 has been touted as the “year of UK self Catering” – so now is the perfect time to step up your Blue Chip Vacations campaigns – or start one today!