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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I've seen potential affiliates bring it up at least four times on GFY. You seem like an intelligent person so I'm sure you realize that for every one person bringing it up here 10 - 100 have likely noticed it and said nothing while perhaps deciding not to promote you.
You have a decent niche site and you are actively involved in keeping it going on a daily basis. Those are strong pluses these days when many niche sites haven't been updated in three years. That said I bet you'd get a lot more affiliates if you fixed some of the issues relevant to affiliates.
If you ever decide to take action and have some spare resources to pay for some design tweaks it wouldn't be that hard to make a leak free tour only for your affiliates (they could pass in the url using the &HTML= parameter of the ccbill link) while keeping the same design for your type-ins. I think you could be pleasantly surprised by the reaction from potential and existing affiliates. Especially in these times.
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Hey signupdamit, I appreciate everything you said and can definitely feel the sincerity in your post! I also have respect for you and your posts most of which I do try to follow.
You are one of several whose posts I try to follow and value your judgment and wisdom displayed on the boards.
Sure I will be the first to admit we could stand to redo the tour and leave it leak free. The problem is I have done that before and really honestly didnot notice a jump in affiliate signups. Sure I was expecting a bunch of new affiliates because I offered a leak free tour but surprisingly there just does not seem to be a big noticeable difference.
Like I said I care about affiliate satisfaction like everyone else and if you or others are considering promoting us I would be weilling to create a seperate and custom tour page with custom content or whatever.
I mean Its just me an hubby running this from top to bottom and we really are overwhelmed and can never seem to get around to making all of the changes we want to implement.
Right now my affiliates are bringing in the larger part of my traffic and I have ccbill on the affiliate tour page for them to use. For whatever reason the form hits are there but the signups are not. I have my suspicions but without anything concrete they just remain suspicions.
I appreciate the fact that you can and do recognize I have some intelligence and have put my heart and soul into my work. At the end of the day what keeps us in this business is not so much the income anymore...
I mean its income and it helps out, but our passion does lie with the lifestyle and trying to capture and illustrate the lifestyle in a entertaining yet raw stunning fashion. It is the feedback and kindness from my fans,members,and friends that keeps us motivated to do this.
The sad paradox for us is that we get more emails, Im's, real fan mail, kudos now than we ever have. More and more people are finding about our work, and are giving us strong support to not stop, but sadly for us the revenue is dropping to levels that seem suspiciously low.
We are under no illusions about the economy and the mysterious shadowy world of credit card "processing" online banking...credit issuance etc.
Having said all of that we keep grinding day after day trying to do the best we can with what we have. We are goingback to the drawing board and will try to implement some ideas that have been in development.
Thats all we can do is hang in and try to maintain.
thanks again for your sincerity!