Newsletter: April 17th, 2009

New Site Templates Now Completed

In line with our company policy of always keeping our affiliates informed as to what`s going on behind the scenes, last week`s newsletter filled you in on some very fundamental new aspects of the Bone Fish service.

Aside from having recently spent a five-figure sum to ensure that our reputation stays 100% clean with white lister Habeas, we have now also put into place a new, centralised source named "Match Mailer" from which we will be sending out all member mails. In this manner - and through the use of our novel and funky emails - we can now more or less ensure that we always break through the barriers that the likes of AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo have been putting up to prevent us from getting in touch with their users. (See last week`s newsletter or the Bone Fish Blog for more details: http://blog.bone-fish.com/).

And this week, we have even more news for you. Having revealed the new designs for the member emails, we`re now bringing to light other new features of the affiliate admin centre. Today, we`d like to bring to your attention our new website templates.

Below, are a few examples of how your dating sites could look, should you wish to either change your design and style, or set up brand new sites on the Bone Fish service - plus, a reminder of how our new member emails will look before being branded to work hand-in hand with your corporate identity.

Even if we`re blowing our own trumpet, we have to say that in our eyes, everything looks fantastic. Fresh, modern and upbeat, these dating templates are set to knock the socks off other competitor styles and will hopefully bring in new members by their thousands. In fact, let`s not use the word "hopefully" - because in our opinion, there`s no doubt that these designs will rock daters world`s around the globe.

That`s about it for this week - so for now, we`ll leave you in suspense and anticipating what more we could possibly surprise you with next week. Because at Bone Fish, we believe that change and innovation is the only way forward and we only ever look in one direction. Upwards and onwards!

Kind regards,

The Bone Fish Affiliate Team



Reminder to all affiliates

Regarding the Match Mailer system, affiliates are not required to make any changes to their sites. However, we remind those that are new to service and are setting up a site for the first time or those that are setting up additional sites or sub sites, now need to ensure that the title of the "Group Name" is not the same as the URL.

NB: Existing live sites do not need to make any changes to this section at all.



Run Forest, Run

After weeks of shouts across the office of "Run Graham, Run!", this week we`d like to give a special mention and five minutes of fame to one of the founders of Bone Fish`s brilliant service.

Graham Hampson who partners Mike Fitzgerald in the running and directorship of the company, set off for Barcelona last weekend with only one aim - to run like hell in the Cursa Bombers Marathon around the beautiful Spanish city and make it to the finishing line before keeling over.

Having watched his tummy grow and dig deeper into his desk over the past few months, Graham felt the need to get into shape before the summer season and as such, set himself the target of running 10km to once again get fit, alongside another 15,000-odd crazy individuals.

Sponsored by Nike, this annual race saw a multitude of nationalities unite in a carnival atmosphere. Some made it to the finishing line, and some didn`t. And despite the general office consensus the previous week, Graham - our programming guru - not only crossed the finishing line, but completed his 10km in a record 49 minutes 50 seconds. Not bad, not bad at all.

As such, we would like we congratulate him on his personal achievement and warn him that we`re entering him into the Great North Run this September. He`ll need to train like never before, but he`s bound to get there in the end.

And just to help him along the way, we`ve decided to integrate his fitness programme into his office regime - he`ll be running up and down making the teas, jogging to the sandwich shop to pick up the rolls, and darting round the programming department to ensure that all the new features that we`ve promised our affiliates happen in no time at all.


So Graham... tea, no sugar... pleaseeee!