Converseon Affiliates » 2006 » March

Mother’s day is right around the corner! Promote our fantastic assortment of tasting packs for Mom this holiday, and be sure to tell your visitors about our $5 off coupon “MOM” (good through May 15th). And of course, with MyWinesDirect all orders are always shipped free.

Log into you LinkShare account today to grab great new links - including text links, mother’s day banners and coupon banners.

I’m am pleased to announce that MyWinesDirect.com now offers our affiliates the LinkBuilder tool in the LinkShare interface. For those of you who do not know what LinkBuilder is, it allows you to browse our site and create specific links to products or pages that you would like to send your viewers to. You can access this tool in the Create Links section of your LinkShare account under the Individual Product category. Then click on the link directly above the search box that reads, “- Click here if you are an advanced user and wish to browse the following merchant’s website for a particular product.” If you have any questions, comments, or requests don’t hesitate to contact me as I will do my best to facilitate your needs.

Jamie Birch
Director, Affiliate Relations

As you know, MyWinesDirect is different from other wine websites because of our extraordinary screening process. Our experts and random tasting groups separate the duds from the great, so that each bottle featured on our site is sure to please. We hope these new banners get that point across.

These images are available to you through Linkshare, so please log in to grab the html to these banners, as well as our March coupon offer for $10 off for new customers.

Yesterday I had the honor of being a part of the process that makes MyWinesDirect so unique. .. And let me tell you, it was a delicious experience.

Every few weeks MyWinesDirect gathers their bottles of wine that they’ve discovered from tiny wineries near and far, and has experts screen them. These experts have a trained palate and know exactly what is unacceptable and what is extraordinary. They’re very selective and they manage to rule out over 75% of the bottles being considered. Thankfully, that’s when I got to step in.

As part of a tasting panel that met yesterday in New York, I was delighted to partake in a blind screening of an assortment of reds and whites from France, Australia, California and Chile.

Tasting each one and carefully noting whether it was enjoyable, was so much fun. It was quite interesting to see the range in likes and dislikes among the group and even more fun to experience when a wine was found overwhelmingly pleasing to us all. After tasting about 30 different wines, I’d say only about 7 wines were clear winners with unanimous praise and the highest marks. It’s pretty cool how 100 wines turn into 7, but the screening doesn’t end there.

Another panel group made up of regular folk, just like the panel I sat in on was, will soon meet up on the West coast and rate these same wines - blind to our results.

From that point, all the results are compared and only a handful of wines will receive the final nod. It’s a long and constant process, all to make sure that every wine showcased on MyWinesDirect is an absolute pleaser, an absolute delight and a true winner.

..As for me, I have my fingers crossed for a certain merlot 2001 out of Australia to make it to the site. In the meantime, there’s lots more exploring to do on MyWinesDirect — knowing now, first hand, that each and every bottle sold on MyWinesDirect is already a favorite to many!