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Christmas is all about dreams, isn’t it? This is why we want to show you how easy it is to make dreams happen today. Last year, we started investing in businesses around the world via online microfinance platforms.  In 2009, we supported 15 different projects with more than 50 entrepreneurs. You might have already read some stories here on our blog – maybe even the one about Odilla, businesswoman from Kenya or about Chum Thon from Cambodia. To show you which great impact microfinance investments can have, we created a nice, little video that tells their stories and explains what the idea is all about:

We believe in microfinance, because people like you and me can make investments that stimulate motivation and grow over time. Help us to turn the dreams of thousands of entrepreneurs into reality. All it takes is a small loan, which helps people to help themselves. We hope that you like the idea and follow suit.

Have a merry Christmas everybody and thanks a lot for a great year 2009!

Thomas Hessler, Heiko Rauch and Jens Hewald

Thanks to our lovely office managers’ efforts in putting up a huge Christmas tree at our headquarter’s lobby today, the Christmas spirit is now all over zanox. The tree’s decoration is – of course – in orange, our zanox Buddy Bear has been equipped with a santa hat, and chocolate and ginger bread is piling up on our desks. And somebody already turned on the Christmas tunes today… We took a few pics to put you in the mood

Just in time for the hot phase of the Christmas business, we have introduced faster payout periods for several hundred of our international top publishers. Starting now, they will receive payouts from their activities every 10 days up until 31 January 2010 – just as our publishers with an AdRank 6 or more do already. Partners who fulfill the criteria to benefit from our faster payout process have already received an e-mail from us.

Especially during peak seasons like Christmas, affiliate programmes with a short confirmation time are way more attractive to publishers than others. So also as an advertiser, you can benefit from speeding up your Christmas business: The faster you approve transactions, and the shorter you set your auto confirmation time, the more money your publishers can reinvest into promoting your programmes, and the more attractive your programmes and promotions will become for other publishers too.

Advertisers who reduce their confirmation time significantly may let us know, so that we can point our publishers especially to those programmes.

The confirmation time is also one criterion for our selected Christmas offers: The weekly round-up of the most promising campaigns helps publishers finding out which advertisers offer the most attractive Christmas promotions, which products promise the greatest success or which ad media will lead to the best conversions: http://affiliate.zanox.com/global/affiliate-programmes

Have a successful and profitable end-of-year business!

Right in time for the start of the Christmas business, we kicked-off our exclusive, weekly round-up of the most promising advertiser campaigns today. Starting now, we will present you the most attractive offers and deals at a glance. As a publisher, you will receive three recommendations in comparison every week, via your Account start page, our promotion page (just click on “promotions” for your country), the weekly newsletter and our zanox Blogs. Find out which advertisers offer the most attractive Christmas promotions, which products promise the greatest success or which product will lead to the best conversions. You’ll also get all the information on commissions, confirmation rates and times, as well as specials, such as expanded SEM facilities, search deep links, standalone newsletters and special ad media can be seen at a glance.

The selection of the Advertisers is done by our local zanox teams and will focus on the appeal of the exclusive Christmas promotions and the programme quality. This should give you a perfect opportunity to plan your seasonal activities to perfection and to achieve the best possible conversions. We are looking forward to a great year-end business with all of you!

It’s getting a little quieter in the zanox offices: Most of the chocolates from our advent calendars has already been eaten and people are preparing for a couple of nice, relaxing holidays with their families, friends and loads of good food!

So we would like to take the chance to thank you for a successful year 2008 and to wish you all a merry Christmas!

As you might already know, we decided to stop donating and start investing in innovative ideas and entrepreneurship around the world this Christmas. From now on, we will help people who don’t have the chance to get financial support from a bank. Read more about our investment in sustainability here: www.zanox.com/sustainability

We are looking forward to working with you in a new successful year 2009!

Have a happy holiday and a fabulous Christmas!

Only six more weeks to go until Christmas! You want to make sure that you don’t miss out any of the special promotions? Then you should check out our latest promotions for your country by clicking on the flags below. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed and get daily updates on new offers.

Our RSS feeds are fully customisable – so you can choose your favourites within a selection of countries, industries and promotion types for both, customer and publisher promotions. Just make your preferred selection, get the list of promotions and save the link to your RSS feed reader.

You can also subscribe to our international programme news feeds at affiliate.zanox.com – which are of course also customisable by choosing the industry and the promotion type.

Need a feed reader? Have a look at our previous post on how to get one.

Have fun checking out our latest Christmas promotions!