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Originally posted by CDSmith
Just as many TGP's have the "private partner submitter list", your point is the same model but for affiliate programs. I would not be suprised at all if the "by invite only" becomes more prevalent in the near future.
One amendment might be that you allow trusted affiliates to recommend new webmasters in, thus maintaining a webmaster refferral system. The exception to the traditional referral program, however, would be that if anyone refers in someone who ends up cheating, then BOTH the cheater and the one who referred him are shitcanned. What do you think?
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yup, I agree
In the rush to be competitve, sponsors went after every webmaster in a shotgun approach to signing up affiliates...I'd rather have 10 good affiliates sending me 20-30 true signups per day then a 100 guys sending me 2-3 signups every other week...I'd rather work 1 on 1 with those affiliates than have to babysit 100 newbies making their first tgp gallery...don't get me wrong, I'm not bagging on newbies, but I'd, personally, just rather work closely with 10-15 good solid affiliates and provide them custom adverts and whatever it took to get their traffic/business. Working with that, it would be easier to run a 35-40 per signup prgram without playing games with numbers or traffic (on both sides, the affiliate side and the sponsor side)
One of the trends I see (nothing new, but just increasing) is affiliates telling surfers how to cancel. I've seen some GOOD sales pages that explain the free signup process, but some less creatvie and not so bright people try to take it a step further and explain the cancel process...