I’d have been crackers to head to Newcastle last year to gatecrash the Buy.at Christmas party. I only started actively promoting their merchants from 18th September.

By the time the Christmas Cracker party took place on 30th November I’d clocked up 38 sales.

I attended a4uexpo in October and the staff at buy.at kindly offered me a ticket in their competition as posted on the affiliates4u forum.

There I met buy.at staff for the first time. It wasn’t that difficult really. They had a bar and I like alcohol. It is a winning combination. Being from the North East myself, I wonder why I never found this alcohol serving affiliate network sooner.

I introduced myself and said that I make a decent amount of commission on their network but only for a handful of merchants.

During 2007 I have generated £55,000 worth of sales via their merchants alone and I’m totally amazed by that figure to be honest. I don’t know how I got there!

What I do know though is how I could improve, given the right tools. Oh Santa please give me a certain baby store promotional code for Christmas.

So on Thursday I’m heading to Newcastle for the night. It’s going to be a fun and interesting socialising and networking event. I’ve noticed via Facebook that it’s Laura’s 25th birthday night too.

I’m looking forward to it. For those buy.at staff I’ve not yet met, I’ll be the one propping up a bar until I catch my 06:15am train back to Leeds.

I must be crackers.