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Originally Posted by notime
Good points here. But how would the best way to communicate & filtering be in your point of view?
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I guess my point is that it's just not that simple. There is no "best way", because maintaining good communications -- whatever method you choose -- is *expensive*, in time and effort that might as well be money to the working affiliate.
Basically, each program out there wants -- you could even say "needs" -- a way to contact its affiliates. And they think "keeping your contact info current with us is a trivial thing, surely you should do that, it would be worth your while if you ever had a payment problem with us." But, it doesn't look quite the same to the affiliate who needs to keep contact info current (and working, despite spam filters and overloaded inboxes) with 199
other sponsors, at least half of whom are making the problem
WAY harder than it needs to be by trying to shove trivial or stupid marketing info down the same channel that they "need" kept open for business exigencies.
You can't fix that; there's no one solution to it. Affiliate programs will do better when they make their contacts more rare and more useful; affiliates will do better when they want to hear from the programs, and worse when they don't.