Unfortunately they weren’t sent to OLD as part of some “send me free stuff and I’ll blog about you feature” (although if merchants would like to do this then yep I’m as much as a tart as other bloggers, especially if it’s a nice touch screen mobile – and with a growing audience and minimal advertising blog you know you’ll get a good feature here – sales pitch over).

Instead they were part of a “thank you” to affiliates who had generated some sales for them.

Now isn’t that a cool idea?

OK, it’s a small gift (and full of nuts) but delivery was fast, gift wrapping beautifully done and the chocolates do look quite tempting – so if they past the taste test then that means I’ll have no problems recommending Chocolate Now to my users or indeed other affiliates to have a look at.

Update: They taste great, and the good news is that the majority aren’t nutty so Jude doesn’t get to eat them all – Hooray! So big thumbs up to Chocolate Now!!

All that aside in a week that saw us lose a few days working time due a server disaster that lost email and sites for far too long (not our fault) it was nice to start the day off with something good.

Spreadshirt Marketplace is a place where you can find loads of different designs, choose one you like, apply it to a tshirt, mug, pair of pants, badge.. anything .. and buy it! There are 1000s of designs to choose from and they’re all split up into various categories including Animals, Love & Sex, Computer, News, Politics and Shapes.

With so many to choose from it’s tough to nail down through the many designs, but there is a search facility… that doesn’t work for filtering out designs! A search for “duck” gives no results, but there are duck tshirt designs! A good idea for Spreadshirt therefore would be to get a search facility in place that searches the designs – otherwise you have to wade through a variety of levels, which is ok, but things can start to look samey after a while – and if you know what you’re after to start with it’s a bit frustrating. This lack of search functionality could lose customers from the marketplace.

Digital Duck Fortunately there are a couple of duck designs and the best of the lot is the Digital Duck. It would be good if there was an option to set the colours – that could be some functionality for the future perhaps? This design might look better with a yellow duck for example?

Anyway, that’s a brief look at Spreadshirt Marketplace – potentially a great place to find cool designs like “Digital Duck”, but there needs to be a working search facility and options for colour changes (at least when the design is black and white). There is a Spreadshirt Affiliate program on Affiliate Future but it’s unclear whether you can earn on sales through Marketplace.

Anyway – you see the effort OLD, that’s One Little Duck by the way has to go through just to get a freebie! It’s not on! Gadgets, chocolate, things that are duck related (yeah, I know it’s weird, but ducks have been lucky), wine (not beer though), holidays, cars… you know the stuff .. they’re all welcome at Duck Towers!