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Originally Posted by will76
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Also, what you photographers don't understand is that you may have an "eye" for the best shot, but the affiliate will know what works best on his site with his particular traffic. There is the people with t he passion to take the best photographic shot then there are people who knows what sells the best to their particular audience. The two points of views can still be right, but different. If the photographer's main concern is producing works of art and not making money, and doesn't want anyone to question his creativity/skill nor touch his works of art in anyway, then said person should not only NOT have an affiliate program but they should never put their images online. ...
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I agree with this 100%. As someone who shoots on the one hand and runs a program and pushes affiliate sales on the other, I am acutely aware that what the photographer in me wants to do and what the marketer in me requires are often at odds. When I spend literally fifty times what I need to on a particular shoot, I'm aware that I am entertaining my photographer side and that marketing could sell something a fiftieth the cost.
Because I am primarily on GFY to represent
SpookyCash, and I don't post my CV every five minutes, but I do see both sides of this issue, it kind of irritates me to see some shooters on here acting like the photographer point of view is clearly the only remotely valid one and nobody else could get it.
For what it is worth, I really don't think surfers ever type something in, when they could just click, given that clicking is so much easier.