I’m going to post this in the public forums as a call to all aff managers but after reading this thread I wanted to make certain the folks at CC read it.
heres goes:
we affiliates get abused quite often
and its a rather rediculously frustrating situation because the reason the
affiliate program came to its full potential was to avoid ruining things for
a lot of people. It was in the adult market where they quickly figured
out that it was coming to a situation where there would be a 1 million sites all
competing against each other and all paying the many costs associated with
running such a site. Common sense said the majority of the bunch was due
to stagnate in the inability to outgrow the other; meaning nobody was
ever going to really make some serious dough after adding in op costs and
advertising etc.
only the credit card processors, hosts and PPCs would get rich; the real
earners of the money would stay in a state of overpopulated competition
which would make it hard even for the bigger players to reach their profit
potential.
But what if we partnered? worked together to bring in the sheep; instead
of 2 of us fighting over every one sheep to come along. The money
saved in partnering; would help us all come out with more. Those willing to
take on the headaches of dealing with customers on a one on one basis; as well as do the rather greatly increased amount of bookwork including paying everyone each month ON TIME, (sponsors) would of course make a little more
(usually). The others could avoid the dealing with the public and concentrate on the advertising end of things and make their money from that side of the coin.
it was a win win situation that run honorably, will produce loyal
affiliations where everybody works towards the goal of making money /
keeping the client spending and happy.
It was a team that truly understood the importance of the other. No matter
how big a program gets; it can only stand to gain by continuing to treat
its affiliates right; because think what you will, that is for the most
part extra money coming in that you would likely have never seen otherwise.
The net is huge and so varried that the odds are slim a program would pickup
very many players that are brought in by their small partners who merely ask
to be paid what they earned according to the sponsors’s own choice of pay
structure.
That we pay for advertisement, work as hard as we would if it were our very
own casino; to sell it, seems to go unappreciated which is one thing;
but when we have our rightfully earned income shaved or threatened to be
witheld because we didn’t send enough new players lately; that is a
guarantee the program in question will never be close to what it could have
become if it had merely honored it’s own agreement; without any kind of
cutting corners or shaving. Sending CDs without our link code in cross
market effort; popup exits without our code; all that stuff is what is
holding back your programs.
no wonder I never make any money with CC