@TheBoyMitchell 183123 wrote:
How disappointing.
I would like to think that I have worked diligently to earn my nomination.
To find out that the winner is going to be the person who has set up the most social networking sites degrades the award to little more than a popularity contest, which is a shame when you look at the kudos attached to it.
That’s obviously my own opinion,but I was really proud to be nominated as I thought I had been recognised as having done a good job.it would appear though that despite my nomination I don’t really have a chance when I am up against peers who have the time to engineer votes and turn the awards into not so much a recognition of a job well done, but rather a reward for having the most friends on facebook.
I cant tell you how much I agree with you..
Last year I didn’t campaign until about a week before the nominations closed (and I only did this because Martyn was egging me on :wink-wink ). Of course I sent out the reminder in the newsletters to vote, but I thought the same as you.. If I’m the best, I will win without having to “sell myself”. And I did.
The award is for the BEST aff manager, not the most popular, or the person who hadn’t posted all year, but started posting right around the time of nominations just to be noticed to perhaps get a vote.
The harsh reality is though, that in stuff like this people usually just vote for the person who they remember the most… Who puts themselves out there more..
I think ALL us aff managers do a fantastic job whether we are recognised for it or not..
So good luck to everyone… I think we all win in the end.
One thing I’d like to ask about is how are the usernames used in the voting apart from identifying the uniqueness of the vote? Kinda takes away from the whole anonymous thing.