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Originally Posted by L0rdJuni0r
i am one of your new affiliates and i didn't notice that you have another payment option. I don't like that very much. If you can make a tour that has only ccbill payments, i would like that alot more. Until then, i probably wont add more of your galleries since I'm not sure that I'll get my sale because of the Paymonde. Please let me know if you make one of these "ccbill only" tours. You have very nice content and i think it will convert very nice and i would love to add all your galleries to all my sites. It is disappointing to find this out. Now I'm going to check all my other sponsors too see if they are doing the same thing. Waste of my time now since i could be doing other things that are more productive but damn..  |
Before you start promoting a new sponsor, you should learn everything about them. Look at every page on sites you're going to promote. Find out exactly how their billing works and what you get credited for. Find out if they have cross sales, and if you get credit for them.
Find out exactly what leaks their tours have (links to outside sites, email collection boxes, etc).
Look at what they do in terms of exits, including back button redirecting.
If you use any kind of popup blocker (including google toolbar), turn it off and surf every page on the tours. I don't use IE for my own browsing, but I look at every sponsor page with it because 65% of my traffic uses it.
I always do a test signup and look at the members area on each site I'm going to promote, especially with revshare programs. If you don't want to do test signups, ask your rep for a temp password. Never send traffic to a revshare program without seeing the members area.
Everyone should consider all of these aspects before choosing which programs to work with. You have to weigh the pros and cons of each program, there aren't any perfect ones out there. Don't be shocked or upset when affiliate programs have these downsides. They're usually not out to sneak anything past their affiliates. If a PPS program has a good payout, you may be more inclined to accept more leaks/alternate billers/exits/etc. Personally, I don't use any revshare programs that have leaks of any kind, exits I don't get credit for, cross sales I don't get paid for, or billers they don't pay me for. PPS is a different story. If a PPS makes me a good return per click (by my count), a few leaks are acceptable. PPS programs have to make X amount for every signup. Revshare programs don't.
If you have enough traffic, most % programs that have leaks will let you host your own tours where you can control exists and links.
Anyway that's just my
about the smart thing to do before begining to promote an affiliate program. Especially revshare. It's well worth the time.