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As an affiliate, I'm not all that fond of NATs for a few reasons.
1. It seems too complicated for the small time operator. I've seen a lot of small programs that just seem to make a mess of things using it.
2. I feed ALL my links thru a script that is used accross many sites. That means I can't use the campaign code because of the stupid way they've implemented it.
3. Getting promotional material is a pain in the ass. Whoever thought displaying the graphics/thumbs on the page etc. really was an idiot.
4. Grabbing links is a pain if there's several sites. Yeah.. I have plenty of time on my hands to copy and paste each link one at a time.
5. Small programs need to cut their own cheques. I'd much rather a small program keep the billing thru CCBill so I can minimize the risk of them not converting and still get my money out of them, not to mention trusting them to actually send me a cheque.
The people that write this sort of software need to stop looking at it as a Wm promoting just that program and one or 2 sites.. Most WMs have multiple sites and want tools that allow us to BULK grab what we want as fast and efficiently as possible.
So NATs is great with the "no shaving" promo (although it's a false sense of security since you can still be shaved in many ways) and the stats you get. Note however that the programs that have really great stats have worked on it after the fact. NATs doesn't necessarily come with great stats out of the box.
But the risk is in small programs not converting and not sending you cheques.
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