Dear affiliate programs & new affiliates
If your company cannot afford to pay its webmasters PPS, perhaps you should consider only offering Revshare or not having an affiliate program at all. Kill the façade. If you're struggling, reorganize!!! If you know you can't roll with the big boys, make some changes!! Stop offering these high PPS amounts when you know you can't afford it!!
There appears to be a common theme here: Affiliate gets a lot of PPS -> they're not converting (probably b/c of crappy content)-> affiliate gets blamed -> company decides to move you to Rev or that it just won't pay you and there's nothing you can do about it-> they take back the sales you made for the period and decide they're just going to ban your account without notifying you->you inquire about why this happened->sometimes you get no response and sometimes you get the old "fraud" story, but one thing you're NOT getting is your money.
Also, raise your hand if you've ever received the webmaster referral bonus...lol With one very popular program, I had almost 100 referrals within a 12 month period and I never received a bonus payment. You mean to tell me that out of almost 100 people, not one person became active? GTFOH!!
After promoting a program for almost 3 years with no issues, all of a sudden my account is banned because of 2 (supposed) chargebacks within a 3 day period!!?? GTFOH! I'VE BEEN ROBBED....lol
Here's some tips for new affiliates:
1.) Research the program before you sign up. Check the net for complaints. These webmasters are busy folks and usually aren't going to waste their time complaining about a program unless there's a serious problem.
2.) If offered, bypass PPS and go straight to revshare. If you begin to make a lot of PPS sales, they will find a way to not pay you. Just save yourself the headache. They can give you any reason for not paying you b/c there's no way to verify the information.
3.) Don't put too much time and money into promoting these programs. You'll surely be disappointed in the end. Find something that's not being offered and invest in it. That's what I've done and it's working out quite nicely. I'm slowly moving away from affiliate programs.
4.) (If you must remain in the game) I've never had a problem with Bangbros, Nasty Dollars and Huge Traffic. They pay on time and they respond to my inquiries in a timely manner. There are other good ones out there, but these are the main ones that I currently promote.
Good luck!
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