befuddled me? » Shumper http://www.befuddled.me.uk affiliate marketing for the dazed and confused Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:14:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 I’ve taken the red pill http://www.befuddled.me.uk/2008/06/ive-taken-the-red-pill/ http://www.befuddled.me.uk/2008/06/ive-taken-the-red-pill/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:18:35 +0000 befuddle http://www.befuddled.me.uk/2008/06/ive-taken-the-red-pill/ a

]]> Travelling back to Leeds on Sunday evening, I picked up the Sunday Mail magazine that was left on the train table – apparently the cleaners don’t work on a Sunday – and was hoping this freebie mag would keep me occupied for the next 90 minutes.

A double page spread kept me engrossed for a whole ten minutes and it got me thinking in so many directions.

  1. I made a note on my phone of the new product it was highlighting that I’d research online
  2. I really had to buy this product for personal use and to save money
  3. I could write about the experience?
  4. I could use an unused domain and write about the experience?

What got me excited was a review of the new King of Shaves Azor that is a whole £10 less than the market leader Gillette’s top two sellers and apparently much better.

So I did a search for King of Shaves Azor on Google and found this blog from KMI about their products that also (obviously) saw the same article as me. They handily told me where I could buy it online.

Apparently it only went on sale 23rd June. I bought mine on the afternoon of Wednesday 25th and it arrived the following afternoon at my work’s desk.

I’ve always wanted to blog about free items I receive or report on the phones that I manage to play with, months before they hit the market, so I launched my website ‘Shumper‘.

What’s shumper? Well, last year I was very attached to a jumper that had a shirt collar attached. And my aim was to get through the whole year wearing it. It survived six months but long enough for the word ‘shumper’ to well and truly stick by my friends and colleagues so I bought the domain name.

So it’s here on this domain that I’ll report on clothing or gadgets that make men’s life that little easier. You know the thing, dvd players that also let you watch your old vhs videos and the like.

I may struggle to find the time to write so I’ll be using the blog as a tool to attract more freebies, which will in turn make my life easier and which will give me more free content to write about. Can I lose? No. The site is not there to make any money. It’s merely a domain that I bought that I wasn’t doing anything with.

The site is not fully ‘live’ yet. It’s still doing the DNS rounds and no Word Press plug-in magic has been applied yet.

I’ve taken the red pill and will blog about Azor on Shumper very soon. Will King, I’m happy to sample more of your products.

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