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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
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Quality affiliates only.
Quality or not, all active affiliates send traffic and sales. If your goal is to increase your bottomline, there's no reason to dump legit affiliates only because they do not meet your standards of quality.
Sales from such affiliates.
Sales are sales, from any affiliate. I do not see any difference between $29.95 (or whatever the price is) brought in by "invite only" or by regular affiliate who subscribed on his own through the open registration from.
Next to no support required.
Support is no biggie anyway, for small and middle sized programs. What's even more important - affiliates are by far the best investment of your precious time. 1 hour spent to support affiliate, answer his questions etc will return thousands of dollars in the long run, I doubt there's something else you can fill your time with instead, that will be more profitable.
Little to no tools required.
The very same tools required. It's not like your "invite only" affiliates do not need stats or magically capable of sending traffic without fhgs, banners etc.
Not expected to keep up with every other program.
You're expected to be
better than other programs, in terms of bottomline, if you're invite only.
Promoters do not ditch you for someone else, as each program one ups themselves.
It's not like your affiliates all swear you in blood to send traffic and sales forever, it's "loyalty in exchange of higher bottom line" kind of relationships, if you're invite only. As long as you provide that higher bottom line, they stay loyal. But still there are numerous other risk factors for you, if you depend on several affiliates only, even if times are good and sales are great - one of your affiliates lost traffic, another one found Jesus and left adult biz and here you go with a huge dent in your sales. And at bad times of bad sales, that happen with all programs, you're increasingly exposed to risks of loosing most of your traffic.
Little to no fraud.
Valid point.
Exclusivity to a small number of affiliates.
If your goal is to provide exclusivity to a small number of affiliates, than yes, you will succeed. If your idea is to make more money, I doubt limiting your affiliates base will help.