YoYoNation Affiliate Program

YoYoNation is constantly striving to bring its customers the newest and best products available for yo-yo players and enthusiasts. The “DIY” attitude that has developed in the yo-yo community in the past decade has led to some incredible products, and helped many players pay their own way to contests and events…and even turn their hobby into a full-fledged business.

With this in mind, YoYoNation is pleased to announce its new Affiliate Program, aimed at small “homebrew” manufacturers with unique and interesting products they wish to share with the community.

The idea is simple: If you are a small, independent manufacturer who is just getting started and trying to build a market for your products, YoYoNation is willing to partner with you to help you promote your products, and allow you the opportunity to sell your product direct to consumers through our new “Homebrew” forum. The “Homebrew” forum is a subforum of our popular “Buy/Sell/Trade” forum, and will be reserved exclusively for small, indie manufacturers who have been approved through YoYo Nation.

If you meet YYN’s requirements, the plan is simple: You offer your products directly for sale through the YYN Homebrew forum, and in exchange you give a small sample of your products each month to YYN to be promoted through their stores, blog, and website. Your samples will be randomly inserted into orders placed with YYN within a given timeframe, allowing random players a chance to sample your product and increasing your exposure to potential customers.

Requirements:

1. Your total retail sales are less than $1,000/month.
2. You maintain positive feedback, with no unresolved complaints.
3. You conduct yourself in a positive manner on the Homebrew forum, and all other YYN forums.
4. Your product does not infringe on any intellectual property (i.e. patents, trademarks, etc.)

Sampling Guidelines:

Small Accessories (String, Counterweights etc):
- Run of 50 or less, YYN gets 5 to give away
- Run of > 51 YYN gets 10 to give away

Yo-Yos
- Run of 20 or less, YYN gets 1 to give away

Services (Modding, anodizing, etc)
- YYN provides two yo-yos per month to be modded/anodized/whatever to
be given away.

Other
- For any products / services that do not fall under one of the above categories, please contact info@yoyonation.com

Our hope with this program is that we can continue to assist independent designers and developers in fine-tuning their products and finding their market. As your business grows, YYN will be watching closely to consider working with you as a full-fledged wholesale vendor for YYN, and will be happy to assist you in reaching that goal.

We feel this is a fair and equitable manner for allowing small manufacturers the use of the YYN forums to test, sell, and promote their products, while providing them with the additional benefit of promotion through sampling and YYN’s considerable exposure through media outlets, yo-yo related and otherwise.

We greatly look forward to working with approved Homebrew manufacturers! To inquire about becoming an approved Homebrew supplier, please contact info@yoyonation.com.

So, what does this mean to you if you’re not a seller of homemade products? In a nutshell you now have a one stop shop for everything homebrew related on our forum and every order you make at YoYoNation has a chance of winning some awesome free goodies!

I hope everyone gets on board with this program as i believe it’s a winning situation for all involved.

Regards.

The YoYoNation Team.

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Check out yoyofactoryvideo on youtube to see the the first batch of 5A tutorials from none other than Tyler Severance and Miguel Correa.

Or, look below for the Sterling Quinn signature Genesis, the first of many 5A themed special editions coming from YoYoFactory this month, available at YoYoNation.com and YoYoNation.co.uk

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Hey!

In order to celebrate our hugely successful launch, i’ve decided to offer a FREE YoYoNation.co.uk t-shirt to ALL orders over £80. Just my little way of saying thank you for all the great support i’ve had in the first few weeks.

Remember though, that your t-shirt will not be added automatically, you’ll need to choose your size and add it your order yourself.

Enjoy, and keep an eye out for some special goodies popping up from EYYM!

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Pat discusses his vision for YoYoNation.co.uk and answers a few questions from the community.

Check out the YoYoNation Podcast on iTunes here, or download here

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The long wait is nearly over, YoYoNation.co.uk will be launching at 9pm tonight, GMT!

It’s been a long time coming and before I even get started I want to thank everyone for their patience and enthusiasm, everyone who’s asked me questions or given me ideas, we’ve taken our time to make sure the finished article is up to the standards that you guys deserve!

So, what does the opening of our European store mean to the most important people, you our customers and friends!?

Well, it can’t be denied that since its inception, YoYoNation has had a huge effect on the yo-yo scene in the USA and beyond that, we’d like to think, the World! Bringing people the widest range of products from all over the world directly to their doorsteps and spreading the love of yo-yoing through events like the International Yo-Yo Open.

We now aim to continue this momentum by providing our European friends with a local YoYoNation presence much, much closer to home. By doing this we hope to continue to spread our love and influence to reach more and more people!

So with that in mind, YoYoNation.co.uk promises you:

• Faster, cheaper and more efficient shipping to European destinations without the worry of nasty customs and import taxes!
• A wide range of products from all manufacturers across the globe. Eventually we will provide you with the same range of products that YoYoNation US has available, but we believe we have all the major bases covered for launch. If there’s a product you’d like to see available from the US catalogue, please e-mail us at info@yoyonation.co.uk and let us know!
• E-Mail and Phone support in your time zone!
• Local exchange/repair/return facilities. Let’s face it, mistakes can happen and if they do, you can now rest assured we can make it right for you without you having to ship products all the way back to New York City.
• European EXCLUSIVE products (including one or two I’m personally very excited about)
• Increased EU involvement: It is my goal to use this opportunity to benefit and grow the yo-yo scene in the UK and Europe using all the tools at my disposal!

We also have many exciting plans to make the shopping experience a more pleasant one for those non-English speakers amongst you, so stay tuned for that!

So that’s it! A huge thank you to everyone who helped us get this far and a special thank you to all of YoYoNation’s customers and friends, without whom I certainly would not have been granted this fantastic opportunity.

I look forward to serving you all.

Cheers, Danke, Grazie, Merci, Gracias, Dêkuji, Dziekuje, Spasibo….

Simon.
YoYoNation.co.uk

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Hey guys, the website for The European Yo-Yo Meeting 2010 in London, England is finally up and running.

Check it out: Here

Registration is not live yet, just waiting for a few more sponsors to be finalised before setting the price for you guys. More info being added all the time so keep checking back.

Also, please post this info on all your local message boards etc. Or point me in the direction to do so myself.

Hope to see you all there.

Regards.

Simon.

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