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no aggressive selling! that is truly the most annoying behaviour ever…
How about, don’t ever contact anyone unsolicited. That automatically makes me never want to promote you.
Luigi, that’s kinda harsh. We have been in the affiliate business for more than 5 years now and getting hundreds of emails from programs all the time. I think you should just accept its part of it and definitely not get annoyed by them.
Think of the person on the other side of that email that gets paid for recruiting affiliates, part of the job is contacting people you dont know and that haven’t asked to be contacted. If affiliate programs just sat back and waited for incoming they would never grow.
Well I get paid for bringing in players, can I send emails to anyone I want unsolicited telling them how great this new casino is and that they should play there? I believe that is called spam.
I can understand sending 1 email. 1. But that’s not what happens. What normally happens is you get 1, don’t reply, then get another one saying, ‘did you get my last email’, then another one, etc. Then, someone else from the same program contacts you. One program, whom I’d love to mention but I won’t because they finally stopped after a year of annoyance, but one program did to me incessantly and I will never go near them.
Anyway, this was a thread asking what programs can do, and my suggestion to any program is to leave me alone and work on your reputation. If you have a good reputation you will be miraculously found by everyone and everyone will then promote you.
Luigi – I accept your opinion, but dont agree.
Affiliate programs must contact you independently bcz thats the only way to expand and THE ONLY way to build the program’s reputation – like you mentioned in the 2nd paragraph.If you dont engage the medium / smalll affiliates, and pay them a few times. The reputation never begins bcz no one speaks, and basically no one gets any experience..
You will NEVER sign up to a new program that no one has spoken X or Y about…
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There are ppl that run dozens of websites.. with dozens of contact pages / Email addresses.. + add to that, that in most companies that run strongly on the affiliate side, there are dozens of agents looking for these…They all reach the same person.. and he gets mad.. (for a good reason..).
Affiliates should help the agents to NOT contact them.. its more efficient than getting upset..
I guarantee, that no agent wanna waste his time on someone that will only reply F**U
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if u have any idea on how to stop.. speak loud bro.Thanks for the answer though :cappy:
Yeah, there’s a way to fix this. Don’t contact us unsolicited. It would be much easier for us too to gain players if we sent emails out unsolicited, but this isn’t allowed so we have to find legitimate ways to get players.
My suggestion would be to talk on the message boards of all the major forums, and all the smaller forums. Don’t promote your brand, but rather talk knowledgably about the industry. Work on your payment processing so you accept deposits easily from US players. In return you will get major websites to start promoting you. When major websites start promoting you the middle range guys will see that and think, ‘hey, this program must be good’ and then they will start promoting you.
Spamming is not the answer, no matter how well you think it works. Imagine all the major portals you have turned off by using these techniques, now tell me, is it worth it?
Contact an affiliate just once.
Besides you’re here at CAP, so members will know about you. No need to send email after email. It’s highly annoying.
Oh, and in that first email. Please avoid using words like “the highest converting”, “best”. That makes me hit the “Blocked” button.
This is a matter of perception.
SPAM to me is when I get Viagra crap to my junk box.If I have a website, a contact page, and an email address listed on the whois records, and someone contacts me for an AD inquiry.. if take it as an inquiry not spam..
And if he contacted me 25 times (It happened.. I have had projects of my own), Just delete..But thats very personal.. again perception..I understand ur point of view..
justred;185537 wrote:Oh, and in that first email. Please avoid using words like “the highest converting”, “best”. That makes me hit the “Blocked” button.100% sure
lol..No dude. 25 times contacting a person is not as simple as just delete. That is spam, especially when I have responded to the emails saying please take me off your list, saying please stop contacting me, saying, I know you have 20 different agents working for you, please notify them and tell them to stop emailing me, then still getting more emails!
You are really digging yourself a hole here, imo.
@Shay-LuckyAcePartners 185538 wrote:
This is a matter of perception..
Yeah that’s what all SPAMMERS say when they send their junk out …
:tongue:If it’s unsolicited, unwanted, repeated and commerical … then it’s probably SPAM ..
This short thread shows all the hallmarks of a program that I wouldn’t want to be involved in, a program quite happy to SPAM affiliates, refusing to accept the view of an affiliate, and prepared to carry on unabated with the activities.
If it’s like that for affiliates / partners … then imagine their email program for potential players?
:Cry:Would an email inquiry through your “Contact Us” page be regarded as SPAM?
I totally understand the point of not banging out 20 emails in a week to the same person, but I occasionally do stumble upon a website that I would like to partner with, and usually I send a quick email asking who the relevant contact would be to discuss this with.
1 or 2 emails is fine, but it’s never fine when its a stock, robot style standard email. and its not fine after 2 emails, if after 2 emails you haven’t received a reply, get the hint, cause even if its not technically spam, its technically annoying and will do nothing but get you angered responses.
Agreed.
If it’s a one-off mailing and obviously written by a person who has interacted with my site (via contact me or simply reading an article and responding) then that’s not SPAM.
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