Comments on: An Affiliate Done Wrong

By: JeffMolander.com - What is Behind the buy.at Affiliate Marketing Globalization Strategy? | JeffMolander.com

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:56:59 +0000

[...] in the United Stats. Indeed, I say disrespectful and can back that up with dozens of examples. Here’s one that just happened. I cannot think of a bigger name (indeed, a living brand) than Shawn Collins [...]

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By: YouSendIt Affiliate Program: It’s Not You, It’s Us | Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:50:00 +0000

[...] enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.Last week, I commented that I had been booted from the YouSendIt affiliate program just three weeks after being [...]

By: Jennifer Knox

Jennifer Knox — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:45:05 +0000

I frequently get booted from affiliate programs on CJ and Linkshare with no real explanation. In fact, like you Shawn, I’ve found that it is usually affiliate managers who have done absolutely NOTHING to help me get active with a program who are the quickest to delete me from their rolls.

What’s so amazing about it is that, like you said, an affiliate manager has no idea who will be the next big Super Affiliate for them. Plus, it breeds bad feelings with affiliates. When will affiliate managers realize that people who have chosen affiliate marketing as a profession or business are the exact people you SHOULDN’T alienate because we are better than most at promoting good and bad experiences with a company.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:41:57 +0000

Shawn, don’t feel bad – I’ve been auto-terminated from programs in the past for inactivity – for not going live within 2 weeks. I consider these early warnings on program sustainability (or sales opportunties

It’s earth-shatteringly obvious that they don’t have a professional managing the program. If they’d read the book or attended even the most basic training they’d know that you can activate your dormant affiliates through such simple efforts as a personal mail or phone call.

Long live the CJ autoexpire tool!

Jonathan

By: Rick Lea

Rick Lea — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:00:08 +0000

Dude! They have to be nuts over there. I can not believe this. There had to be an error! Big time screw up or something.

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:23:50 +0000

MediaFire.com offers a lot for free. Max. 1 GB per file. No limit overall (I tried it, it’s true), no stupid delays before you can download the file.

I also use SendSpace.com, which is commercial. I use it for their “Drop Box” feature, which I show on my contact page, in case somebody wants to send me a larger file.

By: Chris Kramer

Chris Kramer — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:08:28 +0000

I sincerely doubt anyone is terminated with the hope of getting free traffic. Any time I’ve seen affiliates removed in bulk its because of concerns with brand exposure or removing affiliates with a lot of clicks and no sales to preserve EPC rankings.

By: Victor Caballero

Victor Caballero — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:11:54 +0000

I wonder if some affiliate managers intentionally terminate affiliates in mass and hope the links will stay up and they will get free traffic? I know this is dishonest.

I have links on my sites that I am no longer an affiliate for and if I click the link it goes right to the advertisers website.

By: Missy

Missy — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:05:14 +0000

I wonder if Dr. Pepper will send you a case (or something) seeing as it was prominently displayed throughout the whole video.

Sorry to hear about YouSend It.