We all make New Year resolutions which we try to stick with for the upcoming year. Some people quit smoking, some stop drinking and others want to start working out.

Dedicate this year’s resolution to your ZlioShop. Promise yourself to try new things that will benefit your shop as far as promoting it!

Find communities, sites and other network tools to promote your shop, so that people can discover your great shop.

At the end of it all you will be the happy camper!

We are happy to let you know that we have added seven additional merchants to our merchant list. Here is your chance to add new products to your shop or start a new shop with a different concept. Below is a list of our new merchants and how much commission they offer.

We at Zlio.com would like to take this opportunity to wish you all Happy Holidays!

Kenmar Watches 4%

Laptops for less 9%

Rosetta Stone 9%

Ritzcamera 1.5%

Perfumia 6%

Sofware Store 7.5%

Shopkitchenaid 6%

Zlio has been elected as the Best Social Shopping service in 2007 by the Mashable Open Web Awards!

Thanks to all of you for your votes!

Announcement here

You are doing a great job, referring Zlio to your family and friends!

Here are the top 5 members with most referrers for this month:

1- Maguie

2- The Hot Sauce Collector

3- Tonya

4- Redwitch

5- ProWeb Specialist

If you would like to be featured as a top referrer, start notifying everyone you know and maybe next time you will appear on our top 5 list!

We are happy to announce that Zlio.com is one of the 3 finalists for the “Best Social Shopping Site”, an award sponsored by Mashable as part of their Open Web Awards. Currently, we are competing against 2 other sites. Help us win this prestigious award by casting your vote here : http://mashable.com/2007/12/17/owa-voting-finalists-3/.Go Zlio Go!

We know that you have been asking yourself the same questions over and over again; which one of these merchants offers the highest pay per sale commission?

Well, below you will find the top 10 merchants that offer the highest commission rate available right now.

1- Magazines.com 20%

2- Magazania.com 18%

3- 4-Your-Printer 15%

4- Avanquest.com 15%

5- Podmaxx.com 15%

6- Bonsai Boy 12%

7- HipHopBling.com 12%

8- Love and pride 12%

9- Media Fast 12%

10- Verseo 10.5%

Do you have their products featured in your shop?

If your first Zlio Shop is up and jumping and you have come up with yet another concept for a shop, don’t waist no time!

As a Zlio Member you can open up to 20 shops and sell different products from our catalogue. So if you have one and want to start another here is your chance. Many of our shop keepers already have three to four shops.

All you have to do is get creative with it and come up with a different idea for your shop! Good luck and tell us about your new shop!

As you know, we have different commission programs available. One is CPA (cost per action), then you have CPC (cost per click) and last you can chose the combination of both.

Did you know that you can track down and see how much you can get in CPC? When you go to you commissions link and see how much you have made in commissions, it shows you how you got your commission. If you got it by CPC, you can click on it and see how much commission you get every time someone clicks on the products that you sell and how much each category of products offer in commission.

Notice this, NOT all products have CPC action available.

Happy Clicking !

Open Awards has nominated Zlio.com for best social shopping site. Now you have a chance to effect that decision as well. You can vote for Zlio.com at the following website

http://mashable.com/2007/12/12/owa-voting-social-shopping/

You will be able to vote until  Sunday December 16 2007, until midnight. At that point, the top 3 choices will be selected which will later on move into the final round.

Lets Make This Happen!

Could you introduce yourself?
 
My name is Ray; I’m 58 years old and live on the outskirts of London, England. I have a beautiful Thai wife and a jukebox to support! 

What made you want to launch a “retro shop”?
 
Ever since I was a very young teenager, I have been devoted to Rock and Roll music and the 1950’s era in general – the clothes, the music, the movies, the lifestyle….everything!

How are you planning to promote it?
 
At the moment I have a link to my shop in my email ’signature’. I also sell on eBay and I have a link to the shop on my “about me” page. Every time I sell an item I send a compliments slip with the goods which also have my shop’s URL advertised.

Do you have other shops?
 
I have just recently opened a second shop in which I have products related to Thailand – Thai boxing books and videos, language courses and of course how to cook that wonderful Thai food!

What did you think of the Zlio service?
 
I think that Zlio have a marvelous idea. It costs nothing to set up, the goods are all ready and waiting for you to add into your shop and you can make some extra money through services such as Adsense. This truly is a “Something for nothing” system!

What new features would you like to see added on Zlio?
 
I hope eventually to see a UK based Zlio operation. As I live in the UK it would make life a lot easier for potential UK customers.
Any extra ways of making residual earnings would also be most welcome!

How do you foresee the future of your ZlioShop?
 
I can only see that the future for my shop will get better and better as more and more businesses get involved. The more shops that open, the more we can set up reciprocal links and the better we will be able to drive business to each other – everybody wins in this kind of situationJ!