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Originally Posted by Rochard
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.
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That's affiliates, I'm talking about people who wanted my entire library for free. They would host, design, run, control payment and give me a share at the end of the day. So it's exactly how it works.
An affiliate who sent 100 sign ups a day is the type of person I wanted to team up with. The only people I met were rip off merchants, promising to make me rich if I followed their rules. Tried enough to know they were rip off merchants. Talk is cheap.
So where is this site that you own and was getting so many great affiliates?
I never met you either. I was at all the shows in Europe, the big ones in the States as JFK's photos prove.
The content store was a success, magazines, DVDs a success. I didn't open a paysite because I'm not as clever as you. Neither is Stefan and a lot of other people who failed at opening paysites, had to work for others to make up their income, never progressed beyond small affiliates. You have to admit not everyone can be as great as you.