*** ArikaAmes.com Affiliates ***
 

This thread is to make all affiliates of ArikaAmes.com aware of the situation that is going on with the site and the affiliate program. My personal matters will not be addressed in this thread and I will not answer any posts about my personal life in this thread as it should have never come to the board in the first place.


ArikaAmes.com and it's Affiliate Site are up and functioning. As most know the sites took a hit when the hard drive failed, but they were able to get all of the information and data recovered which is great news.

As far as payouts go. Here was my issue with it and here is what is going on at the moment. My issue with it was, after NATs went down and all the data was temporarily lost, I was unable to see payouts for the period of 09/16/2005 - 09/30/2005 (The hard drive failed on or around the 27th of September). My nats data was restored around the 17th of October, however it kept throwing me errors when I would try to check affiliates stats. When I started going back previous pay periods to figure out what I owed out to affiliates as compensation for when the site was down was when I saw that I could get stats up to the 27th of September.

So what is going on at the moment...
All payouts will be made from 09/26/2005 - 09/27/2005. Along with that, I will go back up to three pay periods per affiliate and take the average and then add that to their account. I say up to three pay periods because if an affiliate was only with me for one of those pay periods it would not be fair. So that is what the deal is now with everything. All affiliates are getting paid, no one was ever not going to be.

Anyone that had any issues with payouts that hit me up were taken care of.

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thank you for your order

Thank you.

hi arika!

remember me?

http://www.evanradio.com/picslink/evanarika.jpg

anyway, wish you the best of luck as you move forward!

Just wanted you girls to know that I'm hung like a Tapir.

Riding the wave...

glad it's cleared up...
I never got the chance to start promoting you..

Just so everyone is aware "NATS" did not go down. Her server had harddrive issues. This was not a NATS problem.

Of course I do! Are you nuts?! :) Thanks for everything!

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your private life is your business....not ours...

Sorry yea that's not what I meant. There was not a problem with NATs at all, they are great. It was my server issue.

Sorry John!

Good luck :) Sounds like you have things covered.

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This is correct, the folks at NATS went out there way the day of the crash to get the program installed again and then handled the DB recovery as soon as we got the data back. Thanks again John and the crew.

is this a good place for one too??

walking on eggshells...

server crashes suck, it must have been hell

did you have the NATS standard backup option with them?

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I agree with Shemp. That sort of sad thing is better kept between those involved. :( I will say I'm sorry to see it, though. And good luck to both of you.

I hate to say it, but I think the damage has already been done.

No, we did not. I have already talked with John about it though to make sure that it can be done.

Arika... once you have been able to complete all this stuff, hit me up so we can finally move you forward with OhMobile and get you out there!

good luck with everything!

I completely agree, however I needed to say what was going on with this issue.

arika's fans online will continue to buy memberships and be fans and this could be just a hiccup really. also, a solo model being single is not going to hurt the model's perception by the paying audience imho :2 cents:

Good luck Arika . . . my links will remain

too bad, make sure you get it this time around... it's the smartest $75 i spend each month

LOL in comparaison, the pool company are charging me the exact same amount for the new house pool maintenance... :helpme

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Hi Arika, question, will this be a move into hardcore content for you now? Since you aren't married and all. i think it will sell great.

Not sure, but I think her members have always thought she was single . . . except for possibly the GFY surfers

Normally, I would disagree, but after seeing what has happened with Raven Riley, you may be onto something.

I am torn here for purely personal reasons.

So arika if and when you have some time assuming you desire for me to still promote, please contact me via icq at your earliest convience.

Thank you baddog, your post in the other thread almost broke my heart :(
At least you didn't change me out of your location yet :)

No but without traffic the site will not prosper. It appears that the entire situation has pissed off many webmasters who supply her with traffic.. I for one would not promote her just for the moral reasons of what happened. Regardless of what people say about her personal life (which is true is not our business), but it does reflect on how she might handle business associates.

I hope both parties can work through their issues, she definitely has the looks to succeed, I just think (as I have said) the damage has been done.

That's what I thought too, the best money spent would be on the backups. Definitely a wise decision.

so are you chinese or japenese

No way *shakes head*

when you partner up with family (in this case your husband) and your private issues effect your affiliates and their biz I think your private life becomes their concern...just my :2 cents:

i forsee another long thread.

Taking care of business :winkwink: Good luck and I'm sure everyone understands.

Yeah . . . well, now that I know there is another, I may have to modify that. I have been contemplating that for the last 12 hours.

Sleepless night.

too personal to reply to :1orglaugh

That's right, lets face it this "personal" issue has cost many a webmaster some $$$. From time putting up/pulling links, bandwidth, time etc. There is so much more to the equation than "Oops a hard drive failed". Personal issues with these types of sites can definitely cause bad business decisions. Webmasters need to think about this with single girl sites. We have seen two of them have problems this week already.

we don't want to get your feelings hurt now do we.... :disgust

it's your traffic and it is understandable. i take a less emotional approach though to business. also, i think highly of newbreed and arika as individuals. i see arika as a young upstart and newbreed as a savvy businessman who will move on to new ventures. it is a learning process for both imho and the personal stuff should not sway the business stuff. give a young woman a break - forgive but don't forget etc... anyway, a lot of top owners of affiliate programs are divorced but you don't stop sending them traffic :2 cents:

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Will this hit 7 pages as well?

Anywho goodluck

good to see things are being taken care of

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sorry to hear that this happened between you and newbreed... although i know niether of you... it sux that stuff like this happens... i've never chatted with newbreed other than to tell him i live about 10 minutes from you guys... (or well, used to i guess)

anyways... best of luck to ya both.