Greetings Marlo and welcome …
Speaking for myself, my comments were based mostly on the handful of slow payments I received this past summer. However, after the slight improvement in October I decided to give the GSN another opportunity to prove to me that they are worth keeping around.
“I think it’s also a known fact among affiliates and affiliate managers alike, that not ALL casinos convert well for ALL affiliates.”
Personally and with all due respect I don’t fully agree with this statement. If I send 100 hits to casino A and 100 hits to casino B and casino A has a 40% signup rate and casino B only has a 4% signup rate then its obvious to me where the problem lies. Once I’ve done my job and gotten the potential player to click the link – it’s the casinos responsibility to convert.
If I were to believe your statement Id have to believe that its all based on luck and that the same individuals are the ones always getting lucky.
Furthermore, it’s a bit of an enigma why webmaster 1 can send 100 hits and webmaster 2 can send 100 hits and have results that aren’t on par. I’ve seen on several occasions that you like to rave about your conversion rates. So why (based on the same 100 hits) does webmaster 1 have 40% conversion and webmaster 2 only have a 4% rate?
A lot of affiliate managers would just say give us more traffic – put us on the top of your page. Firstly, I don’t know many affiliates that would increase the amount of traffic they are sending unless they were already getting results. Secondly, I believe 100 hits from the top of my pages is equivalent to 100 hits on the bottom – it still represents the delivery of 100 potential players to the casinos front door.
Of course if affiliate A is sending 10,000 hits and affiliate B is only sending the 100 it would be expected that the former would be making better profits. BUT if it’s a 40% conversion rate then affiliate A should have 4000 signups and affiliate B should have 4, but for some reason this law of averages doesn’t hold any weight with certain programs.
Myself, I take great pride in the quality of my sites and I believe this quality assist productivity for each and every program I promote; at least that’s been my experience with other programs. I’ve gotten to a point where I know with relatively certainty how much I will make from a given number of hits, regardless of the program.
In my case and as the professor has pointed out your program hasn’t performed as well as other MGS programs.
I hope my opinions do not hamper recent improvements, but rather assist in the further development of affiliate / manager relationship(s.)