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Originally Posted by Alprazolam
more like some of them think they're more valuable than they are. time to view your surroundings affiliates. the landscape has changed. the days of being a premadonna are over. buck up and be a business person and realize that you play a complimentary role in the sponsors business models now. if you think it's more than that, you're out of touch. i know, i'm and affiliate, and i run a small program that you've never heard of. we select our affiliates by hand. the days of begging for affiliate joins are over.
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All true but affiliate sales are still like free money. There's an opportunity cost for not taking them. But it's also a balance. On one end you have the affiliates who send 1 sale a year and want you to make custom promo material for them and every other week they hit you up about something. On the other end you have sponsors who are outright stealing from affiliates by refusing to pay old rebills or other such things. Somewhere in the middle is where we should be.
It's also one of the biggest myths that the affiliate doesn't have any power and is the low man on the totem pole in 2010. That's not true as long as you still have traffic that buys. You still have plenty of choices on where to send them, don't let anyone fool you.