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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If an affiliate had came to me with proof, by promoting my site and showing me what he could do with good content, I would have partnered up with him. But none did, none bought enough of my Bargain Basement to do whet you make sound was easy.
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That's not how it works.... Affiliates don't need to come to you with "proof" of their work.
I'll never forget our first "big" affiliate. We met him at YP Mexico. He told us he could send us 100 sales a day. When we got back home from Mexico he signed up, and he sent us 100 joins a day. He was the first out of hundreds of affilaites that could send us that amount of joins a day.
I think your problem is you failed to network. You didn't know the affiliates. Granted, you were a photographer, and it wasn't your job to know the affiliates but... I went to the shows and I had to know everyone - the affilaites, the photographers, the hosting companies, the billing companies, and everyone else... Beacuse I never knew when I would need them. I didn't need to know photographers in Europe, we had our own in house photographers, but when one day we decided we need a photographer in Europe we knew just who to call. That's called business.
I went to most of the shows in the US from 2000-2010 and also shows in Europe yet... Somehow I never met you.
You failed to network. You did your business and "dabbled" in online stuff, and when you made the decision to actually work in online you didn't know the right people, it was poorly executed, and then you had the magic join links disaster which you never recovered from.