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Originally Posted by KlenTelaris
NATS is maybe required here due it's billing handling, but when it comes to tracking there is many cheaper solutions then has offers.
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but all this tools do not work with affiliates.
out of that they are also quite expensive when it comes to handle huge ammounts of traffic.
a tracking tool like voluum & co can only work on predefined ways.
other a software like hasoffers as the affiliate here is free to do what he wants.
he can pick landingpages and can rotate and check them in his own tracking tool OR he creates a smartlink and let hasoffers do the job (what might me not exactly as good as the own tracker but better than nothing).
hasoffers is a mix of affiliate software and tracking tool without any connection to billing while NATS is a tool for affiliates and billing but miss out the modern tracking and optimizing abilities.
if one is running an affiliate program in this days he needs to think in every kind of affiliate and give them the right options.
there are still a lot of old fashioned webmasters in the biz that do not even know what we are talking about here. but they still bring some money in the mass - so you can not simply forget them.
on the other side there are tenth of thousands young, fresh and highly skilled media buyers who are really making the biggest part of the money today. but they do not own websites or know anything about traffic generation as their focus is a complete different one. but this people you can not impress with options that have never changed since the last century.
I think that this decision to do it this way is correct and 1000 dollars per month is nothing one should look at when he wants to make a broad range and longterm biz.
sure there are thousands of home made affiliate programs out there (most of them are not existing anymore) who do it in such a way. but it will never lead to anything big.
1000 dollar costs i have already spend when i wake up in the morning and during the day it will be additional 4000-5000. so this is real peanuts and just a very very little factor within all costs a good made program have.
and THIS is the reason why one can only think big when he thinks in doing something good.