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Old 02-13-2014, 03:40 PM  
deltav
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:2cents Time to bitch about affiliate managers

This has happened twice the past couple weeks, so I'm going to complain about it.

I get a stock email from a well-known program, basically "You haven't made many sales with us the past 6 months, please respond with an explanation or promo plan or we will terminate your account."

These are programs that I might have a couple banners up somewhere for, but haven't been actively promoting - either because they're oversaturated already or it doesn't fit with my current active projects. But maybe down the road I'll use them. And in any event, I *do* have some banners/codes up so it'd be annoying to lose credit for the occasional sale that trickles in. These are CCBill accounts, so it's not like they're having to cut tiny checks or anything. So I write back explaining this and to keep the account open.

Then an affiliate manager sends this patronizing reply where he looks at a couple random dormant sites of mine, then painfully explains the concepts of niche marketing and updating, as if I just stepped off the boat and have no idea what I'm doing. A list of where I went wrong, and that my lack of sales is due to incompetence rather than not actively promoting them.

The first time I just laughed. The second time, well I laughed too but it started to feel like a trend.

Anyone else had this happen lately?
Also, am I off base here? Do you guys keep semi-dormant CCBill accounts open just in case you might use them later, or because you do get the odd sale from a banner or blog post somewhere?
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