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kronic · 09-23-2002, 06:24 PM

I use countless sponsors and with probably 35% of them have noticed a disturbing trend.

Usually over the course of the first few days, I generate sales. In some cases good sales, in others mediocre. Sales nonetheless.

However, after I generate a few sales it dries up...fast. I use the same methods to promote them as I did when I was generating signups and the same methods I use with my other sponsors, but all of a sudden the sales dissapear.

Normally, this is no big deal, because you just change sponsors. But when there is a minimum that amounts to say, 3 sales and you got 2 the first day, you figure, fine I'm gonna dump your ass as soon as I hit my minimum.

This isn't limited to programs with limited sales, this is just a worst case scenario.

One sponsor in particular, I generated great sales for about 2 weeks. So, I up the traffic that I was sending and generated NO sales. I stopped sending traffic about a week later. Through cookies and such I was still getting a TINY amount of traffic though, and miraculously, sales started to reappear. Bumped it up a little again, and sales disappeared. I stopped sending traffic again, and AGAIN sales started to appear. No, I didn't send anymore traffic their way.

So my question is this. We've all heard about sponsors shaving, (blah, blah, blah) but do any of you think that sponsors ADD sales to mislead you and have you generate more traffic to their sites?

09-23-2002, 06:24 PM
kronic Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 964	Reverse Shaving? I use countless sponsors and with probably 35% of them have noticed a disturbing trend. Usually over the course of the first few days, I generate sales. In some cases good sales, in others mediocre. Sales nonetheless. However, after I generate a few sales it dries up...fast. I use the same methods to promote them as I did when I was generating signups and the same methods I use with my other sponsors, but all of a sudden the sales dissapear. Normally, this is no big deal, because you just change sponsors. But when there is a minimum that amounts to say, 3 sales and you got 2 the first day, you figure, fine I'm gonna dump your ass as soon as I hit my minimum. This isn't limited to programs with limited sales, this is just a worst case scenario. One sponsor in particular, I generated great sales for about 2 weeks. So, I up the traffic that I was sending and generated NO sales. I stopped sending traffic about a week later. Through cookies and such I was still getting a TINY amount of traffic though, and miraculously, sales started to reappear. Bumped it up a little again, and sales disappeared. I stopped sending traffic again, and AGAIN sales started to appear. No, I didn't send anymore traffic their way. So my question is this. We've all heard about sponsors shaving, (blah, blah, blah) but do any of you think that sponsors ADD sales to mislead you and have you generate more traffic to their sites?