What do affiliates not like?

[hango]

First, let me say that I have a terrific affiliate network. I can't ask them this question directly, since I use ClickBank and I can't get a contact list of who my affiliates are.

They other day, I tried out Google Adwords and Facebook ads. I pumped a few hundred dollars into the ad networks and received a few sales (it was definitely worth the money), but I noticed that my affiliate sales dropped off significantly. I don't think that ad traffic was the same demographic as the affiliate demographic, especially on the facebook side.

For the affiliates out there, what are your thoughts regarding your vendor also trying to sell the product through ad networks? Do you think this is wrong for the vendor to do?

Any other thoughts on what vendors do to affiliates that piss affiliates off?

 

[erdini]

if the vendor isn't marketing their own stuff...most people would actually view that negatively

 

[hango]

erdini,

Thanks. I do market my own stuff, just not through ad networks. The difference was just amazing. I went from over 100 hops a day through affiliates to less than 30 when I started Adwords.

 

[dreamscape]

Any other thoughts on what vendors do to affiliates that piss affiliates off?

Putting Adsense ads on their pages... very retarded.

 

[mikeshinobi]

If you make more money when you're running PPC then I don't see why you should really give a shit what your affiliates think

 

[titanium777]

2 things that piss me off as an affiliate:

1) scrubbing

2) aff managers who harass me to run traffic to 'xx' offer, but disappear as soon as I have a valid question that needs answering

 

[hango]

If you make more money when you're running PPC then I don't see why you should really give a shit what your affiliates think

The cost/conversion is lower with affiliates or at least it was with my recent PPC campaign. I don't mind paying out to someone else, especially if they are doing the marketing for me.

 

[BigWill]

The cost/conversion is lower with affiliates or at least it was with my recent PPC campaign. I don't mind paying out to someone else, especially if they are doing the marketing for me.

If the cost is lower with affiliates then allow them to do it. You can use that time to be productive in other areas.

 

[BenPOF]

1. PAY YOUR PEOPLE AND PAY THEM ON TIME

Otherwise, they don't spend with me and that makes me wanna go Wayne Brady.

 

[O Marina]

I can't see what Ben wrote.

 

[shawnhag]

1. PAY YOUR PEOPLE AND PAY THEM ON TIME

 

[doug.ad.center]

Paying what is owed and paying on time is everything... affiliates will take a hit in conversion if it means getting paid on time.

 

[shawnhag]

Paying what is owed and paying on time is everything... affiliates will take a hit in conversion if it means getting paid on time.

well that's not true for me, but getting paid on time definitely is everything.

in this industry if you are literally a few hours late with a payment then you are a total scam artist.

 

[wouldjaball]

I second the adsense on landing pages. Just dumb.

 

[O Marina]

Affiliates do not like competition, Affiliate Managers & people : D

 

[-God-]

I don't like going lubeless.

 

[BassHead]

Not getting paid, that's that shit I don't like.

 

[MaxSteve]

Paying what is owed and paying on time is everything... affiliates will take a hit in conversion if it means getting paid on time.

Why would it be necessary to take a hit on conversion to get paid on time? Or better yet, why would anyone knowingly work with a network that doesn't pay on time?

 

[erdini]

90 day lock periods

 

[Soriful]

It's like second nature. But why do we do it? So here's where we get to the interesting part. On the surface an affiliate link may seem like a pretty simple thing.