Certainly there is space in the affiliate world for a PCAP or PGPWA forum where the lead P actually stands for Professional Peers.
In this case professional probably means the affiliates are full-time, focused on the niche, with a company corporate structure (and asssociate tax/business issues), earning at least a six-figure profit.
It’s not that I don’t want to participate in other discussions with affiliates up and down the food chain, that can be interesting and useful, but sometimes the level of whining, bickering and plan stupid posting can drive me up the wall !!
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95% percent of the threads on the affiliate forums these days are either :
– ego driven bickering about past grievences and wrong-doings
– small affiliates complaining that all things are not equal out there (quotas ot higher rates)
– or inane chat and happy birthdays
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As it stands right now there is not a place that you could say provides useful information and peer-group mentoring for affiliate past their initial first 6-12 month steps.
Some of that might be understandable (from the CAP / GPWA point of view) in that the owners of the forums appear to be targetting a drive for massed headline numbers of participants in a goal that seems to be to say simply that they’re the biggest ???
Perhaps that drive towards quantity enables them to attract more programs, bigger fees, or a larger ego stroke … but whatever the reason … the leaping for quantity has certainly removed a lot of the useful QUALITY for the exisiting forums IMO.
IF Area51 is going to be a place that we can share valuable information in a professional setting then more power to it !
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