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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
So here's how I deal with it, being a clever and perceptive fellow: if we're talking about an affiliate who puts almost zero effort into promotion - throw up a link, throw up a gal, and that's it, never anything else - then the affiliate is not really doing his part. Sure, they threw up a banner but these days it takes much more promotion than that to succeed.
But if we have an affiliate who is really trying, involved and communicating with me, then I will go out of my way to help that individual. This could mean special mailings for traffic he sends, or a better percentage, or something custom to help with his promotions. But if an affiliate is just throwing me in along with ten thousand other Programs, well how much extra effort can he expect? It SHOULD be a relationship.
Now guess how many affiliates actually take the time to contact ME? LOL Yup, maybe like 2. Thus, this thread and let's see if weekly emails may motivate some affs.  |
To be fair, It's not just you. I don't even think there is an easy way for you under CCbill to say add a unique ID to mailers automatically in order to easily credit affiliates when someone they sent originally buys after clicking the mailer. Is there? The same is true for cross sales on CCBill. As far as I know they don't even offer the option to compensate an affiliate for a cross sale generated from traffic they sent. That is just how this industry (de)evolved in relation to treatment of affiliates.
But say you worked for someone for 12 hours and they used to pay you for 12 hours. Then one day they suddenly demanded you work the same 12 hours but they will only pay you for 8 hours. Would you do it? Probably not if you had other options. Besides the money it's also the whole principle of it. You're not some damn slave and they are being a scumbag for even trying to do that to you.
I think the above is how many affiliates who left viewed this industry and the entire situation. It was just one thing after another where affiliates were constantly being shit on by the industry. A total lack of respect for them, their traffic and their efforts. This was on top of the whole tube/piracy thing. Combine the two and well it's probably fair to say that 90% are gone as we see. It's pretty much done and over.