What do affiliates not like?



It may be cheaper through your affiliates when you throw a few hundred up in adwords but I guarantee if you run your adwords campaign long haul and optimize it, you can either beat your ROI than with your affiliates, get more volume, or both!

You have to be the bomb to compete against the direct advertiser if you are a pub on a fixed payout. You may pay $20 a sale to your affs, which means they certainly can only pay $15 for the conversion, while in adwords you can still pay $20. You will always win. They need to be super tight on their creatives, squeeze pages if they have them, etc to compete against the $$$!
 
How about providing no option to work privately with affiliates.

I don't join affiliate programs so a middleman can get paid and has the opportunity to scrub. I have yet to see an honest affiliate program in my 15+ years in this business.

If you are serious about selling then give your people the ability to do the sales/leads directly from their sites so they can see the actual sales/leads numbers. You will get fewer affiliates but way way WAY better sales and quality. Go private = win
 
I hate leaks on sales pages! They put their email addresses, phone numbers right there. I avoid vendors with pages like that but it doesn't always help, anyway some customers I refer find the way to contact the vendor about product details and stuff. Bottom line - some sales are made behind the scenes - via phone or email correspondence between buyer and seller. Of course I'm not getting paid for that. Damn it!
 
Non payment.

It's common for Networks to do all they can to stall paying.

Be great to see an Aff Association that funds a legal dept rise up and fight back.
 
I personally hate scrubbing. I know networks that have a flat scrub not matter if the leads are high quality.
 
^THIS^

AM's should suggest offer that compliment your strength as an affiliate, not demand you run offers then offer little support.
 
I hate it when networks either delay the payments, or the AMs really don't care about you at all.
 
As an advertiser, I don't scrub at all, if you send junk I just cut you. If you send fraud, I don't pay you (as in my terms). No silly paying for part of your leads to balance my ROI. If it's close, I will lower my payout to you.

As a publisher, I don't work with anyone who scrubs at all. If you scrub, im not going to ever send traffic. Too much headache.

A new hot offer just told me they need 30 days to confirm my SALES. That is bullshit. You put in your terms that chargebacks and fraud are non payable, period, don't give yourself a 30 day scrub on sales because maybe they are only buying your cheaper options or aren't paying for enough upsells or something. Just cut me if that's the problem or fix your funnel.
 
Affiliate marketing is commonly confused with referral marketing, as both Forms of marketing use third parties to drive sales to the retailer. However, Both are distinct forms of marketing and the main difference between them is That affiliate marketing relies purely on financial motivations to drive sales While referral marketing relies on trust and personal relationships to drive Sales.
 
hango said:
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?
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Oh they're definitely not the same at all

You need to focus on an auto responder sales approach
 
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