We have teamed up with Buy.at and HMV to create a number of Top Ten managed units for you to use on your sites. Each of the managed units can be added to your accounts and styled any way you like to fit in with the look of your sites. All of the units will automatically update daily with the current top selling products of each unit type.

The units we have available are:

Top 10 CD – view/add

Top 10 DVD – view/add

Top 10 Blu-ray – view/add

Top 10 Games – view/add

Top 10 accessories – view/add

Use these units as true put up and forget creative, also available as an RSS feed if you would prefer (Pro users).

These units are only available through the Buy.at platform, so please make sure you’re signed up to HMV through Buy.at

We have been asking our merchants to prepare a special ECU for their Valentines Day products, and below you can see the list which have, along with links for you to get them added to your accounts. Remember the merchant will control the products shown in the units, but you can style them any ways you want. Simply add the unit to your account, and customise it to fit in with your site and you’re off.  These units will serve your valentines pages for years to come, as the merchants will update them – put up and forget!

House of Fraser (program via Linkshare) View/Add Unit

Avon (program via Linkshare) View/Add Unit

Red Letter Days (program via AffWin) View/Add : (program via Affilinet) View/Add

The Gift Experience (program via Webgains) View/Add Unit

Gorgeous Shop (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit

Passion 8 (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit

Prezzybox (via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit : (via Paid on Results) View/Add Unit

Night Sky Lanterns (via Webgains) View/Add Unit

Sparkling Direct (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit

Gadgets.co.uk (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit

Chocolate Trading Company (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit

Cult Beauty (program via Linkshare) Gifts for Her: View/Add Unit : Gifts for Him: View/Add Unit

Top Man (program via Linkshare) View/Add Unit

Natural Elements (program via Paid on Results) View/Add Unit

Perfume Superstore (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit

Blooming Direct (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit: (program via Webgains) View/Add Unit

Lloyds Pharmacy: Male Fragrance (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit : (program via Webgains) View/Add Unit

Lloyds Pharmacy: Female Fragrance (program via Affiliate Window) View/Add Unit : (program via Webgains) View/Add Unit

If there are any merchants I have missed off, or if you are a merchant who would like to offer this to your affiliates, please let me know.

Some of our merchants have been busy creating managed units for you this week. By merchants creating units, and keeping them up to date,. affiliates can concentrate on the writing of content and promotion of their site. The content in the unit is kept up to date by the merchants, always showing top selling products or great converters for you.

Here are some of the units that have been added in the last 7 days:

Bestsellers for GJW Titmuss (via Webgains) – view unit
Bestsellers for Dig Your home (via Webgains) – View unit
Top sellers for Red Letter Days – Unit via Affilinet – Unit via Affiliate Window
Bestsellers for Top Man (via Linkshare) – view unit
Bestsellers for Myla (via Linkshare) – View unit
BeNaughty Range at Be Cheeky (via Affiliate Window) – View unit
Christmas bestsellers for Jigsaw (via Linkshare) – view unit

Coming soon Merchant Focus: We’ll be writing posts to let you know about some great programs and to show you ways of using their products in the units in order to increase conversions and more.

Today we have seen a flurry of new managed units being creating by a variety of Linkshare merchants. These merchants are joining the ranks of House of Fraser, Radley, Isabella Oliver and more who have all created managed units for their affiliates to use.

They all recognise the importance of providing affiliates with product content units which they update for the affiliate, yet are still fully customisable for the affiliate to use on their sites.

Today we see the following units being launched:

Sweaty Betty:

Top 10 Cool Down	view unit »
Top 10 Cycling	view unit »
Top 10 Running	view unit »
Top 10 Yoga	view unit »

Jigsaw:

Top 10 Dresses	view unit »
Top 10 Shirts & Tops	view unit »
Top 10 Skirts	view unit »
Top 10 Winter Coats	view unit »

Benefit Cosmetics

Top 10 Bestsellers

view unit »

Avon

AVON Top 10 Fragrances	view unit »
Top 10 Bestsellers AVON Affiliate Program on LinkShare – unit updated for campaign 17 (29th October – 25th November 2009)	view unit »

There’s plenty of products to choose from with these managed units.

If  you have yet to discover the range of merchants on Linkshare – click here to join

Since launching our top toy unit yesterday, we have had a few requests to offer one which features the best prices for the toys. Well I am pleased to say we have done this for you. We are updating this ourselves daily to ensure the correct pricing is reflected on the unit, so you can add it to your sites without having to worry.

Please make sure you’re signed up to all the toy merchants to ensure your links will work:
Toy Retailers included:

Character Online via AffWin
Gadgetshop via AffWin
Hamleys via AffWin
John Lewis via AffWin
Play.com via AffWin
thetoyshop via AffWin
ToysRus via AffWin
Tesco Direct via TD
Mail Order Express via Webgains
Argos via CJ
Amazon

Remember you can style this unit any way you like, and we’ll control the products for you. So if you want a skyscraper unit, you can change the width/layout so that it fits, you can change the colours, and also what is shown on the unit. To add the unit to your account, visit this link and follow the instructions.

Here’s the unit:

For individual price comparison units for each of the products, see our Top Toys Price Comparison Units page

We have created a top 12 toys managed unit for you to use if you wish.

This is a managed unit containing the official top 12 toys that the Toy Retailers Association published as being the most popular (and therefore best selling) with children for Christmas 2009.

Please note that this is a multi-merchant, multi-network unit – For you to earn commission you must have entered your ID for all the networks, and be accepted onto the merchants program. In most cases, each toy is sold by several merchants – We have chosen a broad range of merchants, and selected one per toy.

If you wish to promote different merchants, then you can of course create your own Top Toys unit – alternatively, we will shortly be releasing managed price comparison units for each toy that you will be able to pick up.

As it stands we control the products. If you would like to have this unit added to your account, so that you can change the merchants to suit, please send in a support ticket and we’ll do it as soon as we can.

The Unit:

As we create the individual Price Comparison Units, we will add them to this page.

My Wardrobe discovered Easy Content Units after a discussion with Keith Bond, one of our members – thanks Keith.  Since finding out about us, Sophia, the affiliate manager at My Wardrobe has been busy making managed units for her affiliates.

Flushed with the success of creating her first unit, Sophia has gone on to create a number of units targeting various aspects of My Wardrobe’s products.  Each of the units are available on our managed unit page, and are updated regularly to reflect the latest product trends as found on My Wardrobe.

Here’s a run down of the units available (plus direct links to view and add to your account):

my-wardrobe mens NEW IN (WG) Shop this week’s hot picks from the brand new NEW IN section for my-wardrobe menswear!	view unit »
my-wardrobe mens SALE (WG) the best of the my-wardrobe menswear sale – top picks – updated weekly!	view unit »
my-wardrobe mens: Calvin Klein Shop my-wardrobe.com for the latest style from Calvin Klein underwear.	view unit »
my-wardrobe mens: Lyle & Scott Shop the latest Lyle & Scott collection at my-wardrobe.com starting at only £40.00.	view unit »
my-wardrobe mens: Stone Island Shop at my-wardrobe for the brand new Autumn 09 Stone Island collection.	view unit »
my-wardrobe womens bags (WG) Shop my-wardrobe for a range of the hottest designer bags this season!	view unit »
my-wardrobe womens NEW IN (WG) This week’s top pick of the New In for womenswear!	view unit »
my-wardrobe womens SALE (WG) Shop the best of the my-wardrobe womenswear SALE!	view unit »
my-wardrobe womens: BCBG Shop the my-wardrobe.com UK online exclusive for the Hollywood favourite BCBG by Max Azria.	view unit »
my-wardrobe womens: twenty8twelve Shop Sienna Miller’s designer brand here at my-wardrobe.com.	view unit »

Currently the units are only available through their Webgains program, so please ensure you are signed up to that program before you use these units.

Here’s an example of the units built, this one is their best selling items from the ‘New In’ for men:

House of Fraser have been busy creating Managed Units via their account managers at Linkshare. They have embraced the idea of providing their affiliates with a top performing piece of creative which affiliates can just copy and paste to their site, and forget about, as it’s updated regularly by the merchant.

There’s a managed unit for all, with their top verticals covered as well as a Hot Picks unit, with their best sellers from across their entire range. The following units are available:

House of Fraser Beauty Top 10	view unit & add to account »
House of Fraser Fashion Men	view unit & add to account »
House of Fraser Fashion Women	view unit & add to account »
House of Fraser Home Top 10	view unit & add to account »
House of Fraser Top 10 Best sellers	view unit & add to account »

You must be logged in to add them to your account via the links above.

Below you can see an example of each of the units remember you can customise the units completely to fit in with your websites:

Bestsellers:

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Top Beauty Products:

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Top Womens Fashion:

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Top Mens Fashion:

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Best selling products from Home:

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If anyone has any questions or needs help with these units, please contact the House of Fraser account manager at Linkshare, or send in a support ticket.

How’s your Halloween pages coming together? Why waste time making Content Units when Blue Barracuda have already done it for one of their merchants.  The guys have created four different themed units for you you to choose from (why not use them all?).  You have the choice of:

Michael Jackson’s Thriller

Ghostbusters

Halloween Masks

Trashy Fancy Dress

Best Sellers Unit

for your pages.  Remember all the units can be styled by you once you have added them into your ECU account, for examples on how you can style, see the bottom of the page. Check out the products in the units below:

Michael Jackson’s Thriller:

Ghostbusters:

Masks:

Trashy Fancy Dress:

If these are not suitable and you’d like to have something more generic, then there Best Sellers unit which is updated regularly will have the kind of things you are after:

Best Sellers Unit:

More Styles:

Using the managed units, and adding some of your own styling means that you could create some of the following units, with all the products being updated by the merchant:

Skyscraper Style:

Leaderboard Style:

Box Style:

Linkshare account managers have been industrious this last week creating Managed Units for a growing number of their merchants. This is exciting times as some really high brand merchants adopt Easy Content Units for their affiliates to use.The current list of merchants available include:

• Avon – Bestsellers Unit
• Blue Inc – Bestsellers Unit
• Boden – Bestsellers Unit
• Cdiscount – Bestsellers Unit and Top Selling Computers Unit
• Graham and Green - Bestsellers Unit
• House of Fraser – Bestsellers Unit
• Laura Ashley – Autumn Fashion Unit
• Lipsy – Bestsellers Unit

There’s plenty to get you going, updating your shopping directory/voucher site or indeed worth writing an Introduction to type post and featuring these units which they update regularly to have the best converting products on.  Remember that once these units are added to your ECU account, you can customise them however you want to make them fit into your web site design.

The only thing to note, is that you must be approved onto the network and program before using these units.

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