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Originally Posted by vdbucks
Run your own program for a while and then you'll realize where you are wrong.
Like DWB said, affiliates are are serious about making money with a good program aren't going to let something like manual approval and human interaction stop them from doing so. In general, the one's who have a problem with it are the ones who spend more time crying on messages boards than they do working to make money.
I'm not going to apologize to anyone for choosing to run my program how I want. I'm not going to sit around kissing ass hoping some loud mouth troll on a board will promote my program. There is a reason that our company has only ever had a problem with a single individual over the past 6 years.. and that individual is a mental case and wasn't an affiliate anyway.
And that's simply the bottom line. I have enough faith in my brand that I don't need to go kissing ass and begging to make money. Like I said twice now, we have more than doubled our bottom line in 2011 from 2010. And we're already off to a great start in 2012. Our active affiliates... those guys who actually make money, are happy with our program... and our top affiliates will be even happier in 2 months time when we release our new site to them.
Here's a simple suggestion. If you don't want to wait, go promote a lesser program. Then when you realize that they aren't converting, we'll be here.
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I understand why it is often done. For instance there is a difference between letting a scammer in and stopping him at the door. If you show him that his account was never approved the chances are slight that he will send fraudulent signups which will chargeback. But if you let him in even for a minute then he might use that time to send them and you get stuck holding the bag
But the problem is that after a while affiliates get sick of wasting time having to chase sponsors doing the manual activation. If you require it at least take care of it once a day on weekdays. Also we get sick of all the BS restrictions, some of which you never declare. For instance some just silently ignore webmasters from certain countries. Others ignore gmail or yahoo addresses. Others ignore PO Boxes. If it's not one thing it's another. We just get tired of it. All the little games and bullshit grow tiring.
It's best to use some common sense. If the email address matches the whois and you do a search on the boards and find that the affiliate has been in the industry since 2002 then chances are they aren't trying to scam you.