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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Affiliates prove their worth, or they are not an affiliate of yours.
This is how it should have always been. You show me something, and THEN you can be an affiliate for your program, get access to members areas, free content, hosting, support, etc..
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I find this attitude rather hilarious.
Notwithstanding the counterarguments in this thread, programs need affiliate traffic rather worse than affiliates need any one particular program. I've got a dozen programs I could be promoting for every one that I actually
am promoting. Make me jump through too many hoops -- well,
any hoops actually -- and I'll just promote somebody who is less of a hassle to deal with.
Folks who try to go exclusive with their affiliate programs will just lose the traffic and sales to other programs. There's probably an exception to this rule for the top 5% of programs -- the guys everybody with a brain wants to be promoting -- but the vast majority of programs aren't that distinguished. Most are pushing their luck when they ask a non-standard question on their affiliate sign-up form.