I think what happens is, they sign up, then they realize your page is actually a mess and a blend of Swedish or whatever and English and then they hear that people just buy fleshligt instead and they give up on you.

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they realized it suck

sometimes surfers think they might get something free by signing up as a webmaster :2 cents:

OK, tried again. Fifteen minutes, no email.

To answer your question more generally, there are tons of times I sign up for a program and don't send traffic. Usually you can't tell whether a program has what you need without signing up first. Things I need that are most commonly missing are (1) decent stats or (2) banners that fit my needs or (3) promotional content of the sort that would do well with my traffic. It doesn't mean that a program sucks, just that it's not what I'm looking for.

In the case of Miss Softie, from the rest of the page design it looks *real* unlikely that I'll be finding stats good enough to use if I ever get my password. I want counting of every click (not just sales) and I want to see referrer info on all clicks so I fine tune my traffic flow. Sometimes I'll take a chance and send a few thousand clicks to a program that doesn't have stats like that, but I've been burned too often by noncoverting programs. If a program doesn't have real good stats so I can see what's going on, I won't give it many chances to eat my traffic.

I often signup to programs just to get a better understanding of what their all about...if I dont like what I see I dont send traffic

I think you must have forgotten your username. - If you want me to look into it deeper you could send your username and mailaddress to me at [email protected].

As an affiliate at Miss Softie you can see exactly how many clicks you have generated - unfortunately you do not see where the clicks came from.

Other than that - thanx for feedback. As well as the general observations.





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How specifically?

Well, since you are my biggest fan Rorschach I really do not know how to handle the info you provide. I mean I would consider it useful feedback if I didn't have to consider the option that it may be driven by your hatred of me :)

Thanx!

Gr8 info.

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I sign up to programs I see mentioned favorably on boards or spot on sites, so that I have (usually) an email to remind me that the program exists.

But unless - which is rare - something really grabs me about the program, I won't send traffic immediately. More often I'll check through my emails when I need a new program and then take a closer look at those which might fit. When I don't like what I see, I delete the email and never will send anything.

This is the correct answer.

Others have said it. I'll sign up if I come across something and it looks interesting often for future use. There's a LOT of sponsors out there and only so much time/traffic. Some I will never get around to promoting, some will fit a certain space/niche well and get a steady amount of smallish traffic and a few joins and some I will push hard and make good sales with.

As a sponsor goes 'stale' I'll usually drop then for a while (could be dropped anything from a month to a couple of years) and use other stuff. Eventually I'll probably come back to them. Some sponsors I've not started to promote until a couple of years after joining them simply because I haven't found the time or need for them until then.

It's been said though - if you get even 10% sending joins you're doing well (in this area I think even the 80/20 rule is optimistic). As with everything in sales it's a numbers game. Get the numbers in and you make the money if you have half a clue about the rest.

Of course I notice that several have claimed so.

I happen to disagree. I think Miss Softies program offers good value for both customer and affiliate.

More to the point however - since this is a rathter vague and dim answer -

How specifically does the porgram suck?

i do that all the time
i start so many projects while drunk at 3 am i cant keep track of them all
i just forget heh

Now I'm curious - what's the URL of the site? Sigs finally pissed me off too much so I switched them off.

If I see a site that I like myself, then I usually sign up with their affiliate program. But since I always do this I don't have the capacity to promote them all. Don't know if that's the deal with your site though.

to qualify for contests:winkwink:

he's not completely wrong, it's true I have a lot of webmasters who signed up and haven't sent anything but u never know when they'll start!!:thumbsup

the same case with me

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Thanks. However the login failure shows if the username is bad; in my case, the username I always use is good but the password (which should be the one I thought I used) does not work.

I don't think I'll pursue it; my reasoning is that a site that can't get its email scripts working might have just a smidge of difficulty tracking my sales and paying me, also. But thanks for the offer.

They sign up.

Make a gallery.

Submit.

Jack off.

Jack off.

Jack off.

Wonder why they are making no money.

And then it's back to Wendy's.

They dont like what they see?

You are correct that the system shows if one enters bad username.

Frankly I have no idea what is going on. My best guess at the present stage would be that you have entered the wrong mail-address.

I can understand that you aer not interested in pursuing this for your own sake. However I would truly appreciate it if you gave me the opportunity to find out what is wrong. Right now we are in the classical position of having a reported error but not being able to replicate it. (When I try the same function which does not work for you it works fine for me.)

If there is a problem with the email-script - then it is of course of extreme importance for us to have it fixed.

So I really would appreciate it if you sent some information so that your account could be identified. [email protected]

Best regards
mister soft

Sigs are half the entertainment! That is were people put their accumulated life wisdom in concentrated form!

If you do not wish to see them anyway the URL is


http://www.disposablepussy.com

At least I can find comfort in the knowledge that I am in pleasant company :)

lol

btdt (been there done that)

That's fair enough - I'll email you all the details tonight when I get to the machine that has my info on it. I did get the generic "welcome to the program" email so I'm pretty sure I typed my email in right.

This might have nothing to do with your program at all, lots of folks have been reporting odd holes in their email lately with the recent virus storm and all the filters etc. I think some email may be vanishing into the aether at the backbone level.

At any rate, I want everyone here to understand I'm not down on your program, I only started posting the troubles I had in response to your very direct questions. :)

That seems to be true for me - but only because I can't approve all affiliate applications due to their sites are not complient (not in english etc). Seems like alot of people simply don't read before signing up :(

Really good advises! :thumbsup

Dude parts of your pages are in Swedish, you have images on there that I doubt you have license for (links).

And when I go to your shop er whatever it's in German or something?

That's not very good for the majority of the surfers.

:2 cents:

I agree - much better to have a english and a swedish tour and let the surfer choose on the index page wich language he/she prefers.

The email confirmation is a real problem. Depending on what niche I'm working of at that time, I may need several new programs right now. I like being able to sign up, get content and work. 3 days later getting the confirmation email might mean I might not get back to them for a long time.



I like the programs that are easy. Bells and whistles and high tech aren't as critical as putting all the tools out there. imho

some good insight here.

isnt this the truth.

6 sets of content and 19 cookie cutter sites.

woopie, lets all get rich!

:1orglaugh

Dont Take it the wrong way man, I wasnt trying to be insulting. I didnt say that was why you made the thread. I was just making an observation.
:)

they figure it out after they sign up when they get inside the webmasters area...

or they sign up and send an email/icq and don't get a response.