Great post CPA!
However:
@The_CPA 179235 wrote:
On the subject of making a negative changes to Affiliate’s Agreements, I too feel that this kind change should never be Retroactive. Changes going forward for new affiliates are fine.
I don’t agree with you here, we HAVE TO protect new affiliates too. It can be OK (sometimes) to accept a change when it is not retroactive, but most of the time the changes are so predatory that we need the stand up against the change itself.
These kind of changes that BCP has done – whether they retroactive or not – are damaging for new affiliates as well. These kind of changes will close the doors for new affiliates too, and therefore will damage the industry. I don’t feel better myself just because I am not a newbie and have an account with a given program, so I’m out of the way regarding non-retroactive changes. As Dom said, without new faces in the industry there is no possibility to grow/learn/expand/earn more. We just tighten ourselves up.
@Stupid 179239 wrote:
3. I personally don’t care much about “newbies”. Again, for some of us this is a business, not a hobby. If you decide to enter a business without knowing anything – it’s your own fault if you fail.
You absolutely don’t get what is CAP for. I always admired people who knows everything “out-of-the-box”. I hope you realize that with these kind of TC that BCP has now and imagine other programs following this trend then not many new affiliates will enter this industry.
If you don’t see the problem with this, then I think you need to learn a lot.