The Hitflip UK Blog

If you love the internet and are looking for an exciting internship in Germany, then you may be interested in the opportunities we have available below. Hitflip is based in the centre of Cologne, one of Germany’s most exciting cities, and an internship here gives the chance to gain valuable experience in a fast-growing internet start-up. We offer internships throughout the year, and they usually last between 3 and 6 months. Here’s some more information about the opportunities available:

Online Marketing/Business Development Internship

Tasks include:

Help to develop the UK market
Build up and maintain relationships with media partners and webmasters in the UK
Advertise Hitflip through various marketing activities and channels

Click here for more information about the Online Marketing/Business Development Internship

Editorial and Community Management Internship

Tasks include:

Entertain and inspire the Hitflip community
Write recommendations, reviews and other content for use on our website and blog
Help to develop the Hitflip community
Assist in Search Engine Optimisation activities

Click here for more information about the Editorial and Community Management Internship

We’ve just sent the following newsletter about our January bonus offer to our affiliates:

Dear Webmaster,

We hope you had a great Christmas and New Year and that all your affiliate activities are going well so far in 2008.

Many of your website visitors may have unwanted Christmas presents they don’t know what to do with, so now is a great time to be promoting Hitflip on your site as the place to swap unwanted gifts for what you really want! If you haven’t already checked out our new landing pages, have a look, conversion rates have greatly increased since we introduced them late last year.

As a special January offer to thank you for your contribution to Hitflip’s success in 2007, we are offering a bonus for each active swapper you bring to Hitflip during the month. Instead of the usual £8, your bonus will take this up to £13 per active user, giving you the potential to earn up to £15 per sign-up!

That’s it from us, stay tuned for further offers and bonuses during 2008!

Your Hitflip-Team

For more information about joining our affiliate programme, please go here.

Hitflip received some great coverage over the Christmas period, with the Telegraph twice choosing Hitflip as one of the best sites to use to get rid of unwanted Christmas presents.

The Telegraph write that: “Hitflip, for example, allows you to build a virtual library of all the DVDs, games, CDs and books you’re prepared to swap, and charges about 79p per item.”

We also received a short mention in Web User, who say that “The UK version of the German swap site charges 79p to swap most items, which might seem off-putting for low-value trades but should also weed out the jokers.” . As always, you can read the full articles here.

We were happy to see the legendary online marketing expert Jeremy Schoemaker featuring the Hitflip T-Shirt we sent him in his blog on Friday. His blog is a must-read for anyone with an interest in online business, so it’s great to see him wearing our gift so proudly!

You can read his entry about Hitflip here.

Our members in London may have already noticed that Hitflip was featured in the Metro today! You can read what they said about Hitflip below, and, as always, you can read the full article here.

There’s been some great press coverage of Hitflip during the past couple of days. Go here to read the full articles.

MCV
Gamers face 50 per cent loss on pre-owned exchange

Games.net
Online Movie and Video Game swapping service, Hitflip, claims that
gamers lose 50% of their games’ value when they trade them in.

Develop
No more gambling with game prices

Gamesindustry.biz
No more gambling with game prices

Digital Media Europe
UK gamers swap video games with Hitflip

Game Pad
Trading in Games - Is it worth it?

Kotaku
Trading in Games - Is it Worth it?

No more gambling with game prices

Swapping site offers way to get value for money on games

London, 26 November, 2007 – UK gamers are losing almost half the value of a game each time they sell it on, even if it’s a near-new, new release title.

Research shows gamers spend up to £40 on a single new release console title. Yet when reselling, the price drops down to between £20 and £30, leaving a loss of around half the original cost of the game.

Hitflip, the UK’s largest game, DVD, CD and book swapping site offers an alternative to all those who are losing money from selling their near-new games.

From Halo 3, to Call of Duty to some of the more classic arcade games, www.hitflip.co.uk has more than 1,000 games available for swap at any given time.

“Any gamer knows how frustrating it is to buy a new game at full price, only to have to settle for selling it at a reduced rate once they’ve played it,” says Joanna Wilson, Marketing Manager, Hitflip UK

“With Hitflip, gamers can swap their titles for those of the same value – so you no longer have to settle for getting less than what you paid for.”

Swapping sites are steadily growing in popularity throughout the UK and Hitflip offers one of the most extensive ranges of games for all platforms.

Joining Hitflip is easy and takes less than 30 seconds. There is no subscription required and users pay only 79p per transfer, which protects them against fraud and damaged media.

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About Hitflip
Hitflip (www.hitflip.co.uk) is an online, peer-to-peer swapping site for the exchange of DVDs, music CDs, games, books and audio books. Founded in 2005 in Germany, it currently boasts more than 200,000 users offering to exchange 125,000 different DVDs, 20,000 audio books and plays, more than 40,000 games, 65,000 books and 85,000 music CDs.

Press contacts:

Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson/Emma Bakker

Tel. 02074946595

zuzanna@custardpr.com and emma@custardpr.com

www.custardpr.com

left Hitflip to pursue a different opportunity. Hitflip.co.uk will keep on rolling none the less. We wish Adam Finlayson good luck on his new path and will keep you up to date with new developments on Hitflip UK.

So, the day after D-day, and here at Hitflip we’re still trying to get over the shock that England hasn’t qualified for Euro 2008. Yesterday’s 3-2 loss to Croatia makes it the first time since the 1994 World Cup that England won’t be playing in a major tournament.

As sad as we are though, poor Steve McClaren must be feeling even worse after today’s news that both him and assistant Terry Venables have been sacked.

Rather than wallow in self-pity, we believe it’s best to look on the bright side, and have a few suggestions to help you pick yourself up!

If you think you could have played better yourself, why not hone your skills and pick up a few new tricks by watching Soccer Tactics - On the Attack? Maybe if the England team had seen the DVD, they’d have fared better in yesterday’s match!

Perhaps you were shaking your fist at the screen with frustration during Wednesday’s game, as McClaren stood back to let England crash and burn, and you’d like to take control, at least virtually, by playing International Soccer Superstar Pro.

Or maybe you prefer to relive happier times, like the legendary 1966 World Cup final, when England beat Germany 4-2 to become World Champions, 2001’s stunning 5-1 defeat of Germany, or for something a bit more recent, proving that England still has some hope, take a look at the Euro 2004 Official Review DVD, where we at least made it to the quarter finals!

We at Hitflip have been really happy with the fantastic growth the site has experienced since launching in february. We’d love to learn more about you, your views, and your experiences on Hitflip, and so would like to announce the Hitflip Customer Satisfaction Survey 2007.

As a thank you for taking part, you will receive a free flip to use towards an item of your choice on Hitflip, and you also have the chance to win an iPhone!

The survey should take a maximum of 5 minutes to complete. If you want to be in with a chance of winning the iPhone, please complete the survey by the 30th of November.

Click here to take part in the survey now!