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Originally Posted by AlphaSky
Well, we didn't mean to disrespect to any current affiliates. We had no idea that somebody would post our private email for sport. We never "bashed" our affiliates, but are asking them to simply remove some excess FHG's. We did send out an email about 3 weeks ago and we didn't get a response from those affiliates listed in our 2nd email. We just listed their sites in the email to raise attention to the issues at hand which are very serious to us and our future in business. We never called them "out" or said bad things about them. I don't feel we violated any confidence issues.
A large majority of our affiliates had no problem with reducing the amount of promotional materials being used in one location. Just a small portion did not make the adjustment as of yet.
We are not out to upset people and to cause problems. We are just asking for a reduction in the amount of FHG's being shown in one location. Still at a loss as to all the negative remarks about doing this. We feel it's a very solid move in the right direction. The current model of sending out 1000's of free pics and vids to induce sales no longer works in this market place. It's time for a different approach in a new direction.
Less = More.
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You should have sent INDIVIDUAL emails to the webmasters you felt were not obeying your request. Often bulk emails to multiple webmasters get caught in spam filters. Often they get deleted by busy webmasters who don't want to spend hours a day reading all the bulk emails they get from all the sponsors they promote. You could have sent PERSONALIZED and INDIVIDUAL emails to those webmasters and there wouldn't have been as much to bash you about.
You have a decent argument about limiting the content you put out. It's your business and that's how you want to play it. Some people will disagree with you and they can just decide it's not worth promoting your sites. But listing the sites of those "naughty" affiliates in a bulk email was clearly done on purpose to make your point by calling out the kids who were being bad in class.
It was classic female passive aggressive behavior and you're not going to convince anyone here you didn't do it on purpose with malicious intent.