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Originally Posted by MikeVega
I'm not a big fan of giving away shit for the hell of it or to a # post ... it only works at launch when you are trying to get affiliates and need to motivate them to sign up. I prefer having a nice rewards store (we do)and just sending out random gifts to good affiliates. When we launch satancash the give away worked out well because of the exposer and I have to say that even though the guy that won didn't send traffic .. a very good % of the guys that joined did. The program jumped off nice. But that is the only time i would want to give away something blind like that. I'm all about taking care of the guys that take care of me ... that's one of the reasons we do the 75% bonus Fridays.
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For what is worth i totally agree and you have my respect. I dont see anything wrong with a contest to kick off a program. It's the sites that have affiliates who make them 500 sales a week, and they do a dumb contest and they reward a noob who sent 2 sales for being lucky it defies all business logic and even though in some cases they may give their top guys some perks, it is nothing to what they gave the noob.
I can't believe i had several program owners trying to explain to me that is " advertising" and no different then skinning GFY, lol. What they have is a lack of imagination on how to market their program. they think "advertising" is giving money away to people who make them shit. If they could be a little more innovative they could find a way to generate hype about their program and still reward the people who make them money. Affiliates are not stupid, especially the bigger ones.
Things will change in the next couple years... you will have stand up programs that don't do shit like that and focus hard on the people who make the money, and then they will be the less imaginative ones that are still giving stuff away trying to fight over the noobs who are just looking to get lucky.... my
