Prestat Chocolates : UK Affiliate Program Focus

Everybody loves chocolate! Well almost everybody...and who could resist the delicious delights offered by Prestat chocolate, the subject of todays UK Affiliate Program Focus. Prestat offer high quality hand made chocolates and truffles and deliver both on same day and next day to virtually any where in mainland UK.

This a product which sells well throughout the year but expect sales to spike just before Christmas, Easter, Mothers Day and St Valentines Day. And who wouldn't love to receive some high quality handmade chocs for their birthday or even just to treat yourself? So while this is obviously an ideal affiliate program for any website or blog about chocolate it would also be a great fit for a gifts site, a foodie site or even for a dating site!

A company with a long history, going back over a century, Prestat products include Rose & Violet Chocolate Cremes (described as "a uniquely English eccentricity"); delicious Organic Dark Chocolate Mint Wafers and Marc de Champagne Truffles.

Catering for the gifts market, Prestat also sell a wide selection of flowers, cards, wine and champagne to go with their gourmet chocolates. Prices start at £3.59 for a bar of luxury chocolate and go all the way up to £74.98 for a luxury package of a dozen red roses, chocolates and champagne.

Prestat offer affiliates 8% commission on sales and you can sign up as an affiliate for their programme at AffiliateFuture.

Related programs:
Hotel Chocolat (Pays 10% commission and £4 to £5 on leads for sign ups to their chocolate tasting club. Sign up at: Commission Junction )
Montezumas chocolate (Pays 5% commission. Sign up at Webgains UK)
The Chocolate Trading Co: (Pays 8% commission. Sign up at: Affiliate Future)

UK Affiliate Networks.

You may be an affiliate based in the UK and looking for affiliate programs to join or you may be based elsewhere in the world and be looking at promoting to the lucrative UK market.

Either way here are 6 UK affiliate networks to get you started:

1) Affiliate Future: Excellent selection of UK merchants to choose from, regular monthly payments (direct deposit available). Choose from over 640 affiliate programs including 47 in the gifts category; 86 in the fashion category and 129 in the travel category.

2) Affiliate Window: The largest independent network in the UK. Over 750 merchants, ranging from blue-chip brands such as Dixons, Boots, John Lewis and Vodafone, to niche retailers.

3) Paid On Results: Small network with good variety of niche retail merchants including some with residual commission opportunities. Choose from over 130 affiliate programs.

4) Buy.at: Brand name merchants include Sky, T-mobile, Marks and Spencer, Egg and the AA.

5) Tradedoubler: Extensive pan-European reach of over 1700 big brand advertisers.

6) Webgains: Another good UK affiliate network with 332 programs to choose from. Good stats lets you view the average commission, EPHC*, conversion and ppc keyword policy for each merchant at a glance. *EPHC = Earnings per hundred clicks. (The average earnings for every one hundred clicks that an affiliate generates for the program).