Anthony Hine of Saxophone Players has agreed to take a few mintues to chat to us about his site and experiences with the Shopzilla UK Publisher Program.
1. Hi Anthony, thanks for sharing some information on your website, Saxophone Players, with us today. Can you start off by giving us a little introduction to it?
Hi. My site’s aim is to provide as much information as possible to anyone with an interest in saxophones. Whether you want to learn to play or just want to see what types there are, or learn a little sax history. It caters for beginner players or those with an interest who just want to learn more about the instrument.
2. What inspired you to start up Saxophone Players - why this particular subject?
Why saxophones? I love saxophones. The sound, the shape and playing. I don’t claim to be a professional player or that i’m a playing genius but I do love them. I was looking around the web at sites currently available. Some were great, some were good and some not so good. However, none of them in my opinion, really catered for the basics. None gave a fool proof guide to playing from day one. So with that in mind I aimed the site solely at us out there who need a clear guide on how to get it out of the bag on day one and be able to make a sound. From there it expanded to cover as much as I can think of about saxophones.
3. You’ve been with us for a while now – how are you finding it?
So far I haven’t experienced any real problems. The site can be a little slow sometimes but nothing I haven’t experienced on much larger more prominent company sites. It all appears to be quite straight forward. Contacting you is quick and efficient and any issues or questions are resolved promptly.
4. You use Shopzilla’s dynamic assets on Saxophone Players…how did you find the integration process/portal navigation?
There were no isssues. I would like to see individual options available for products. This is purely because of the way my site is formatted. One specific type of sax to one page. Having individual options would mean I am advertising the specific sax to the correct page. Currently it does this but also gives other types of saxes as well on the same ad banner.
5. What’s important to you in an affiliate partnership? Are you using any other programs?
Trust, trust and more trust. There’s little point in having an affiliate relationship if you don’t trust the person you’re affiliated with. I also run Adsense and Amazon.
6. Do you get chance to check out our Publisher blog very often? Do you find it useful in keeping up to date with what’s going on in the affiliate industry? Not very often at the moment, I’m afraid. I only usually check out blogs if a) I’ve got time (too little time at the moment) and b) I need to know something.
7. Would you consider recommending the program to other website owners?
I have no issues with it. For the time being, it does exactly what I set it up for. To pay site costs, and that’s what it does. So yes. It costs nothing to trial and if you are more committed than I am to making money online it’s definitely worth a go. And may I say a lot better than some other affiliate programs I have tried.
8. And finally…do you have any feedback/ideas for improvement for us here at the Shopzilla UK Publisher Program?
Perhaps more options on the make of goods available and the option of individual items of course. I would rather have a banner with only 1 or 2 options rather than a banner that has 4 options but only 1 or 2 of them are an exact match to what was requested.
Thanks to Anthony for taking the time out and for giving us some valuable feedback on our program. Dynamic assets actually allow you to choose your ad banners by Keyword and Category, and even then, you can customise the colours of the ad with our colour picker tool. We’re constantly looking to improve our program for the best possible Publisher experience so watch this space for updates!
So if you have any questions on integration or registering, please let the team know.
