So having sat down and wondered about this for hours I came to the conclusion that it’s not that people who join and do nothing are taking up loads of time, it’s that they don’t make the stats look cool as who wants to see 80% of there Affiliates doing nothing and if you have to wade through all them to get to the “good guys” then of course you will be thinking lets get shot of them… but alias I don’t think just like that, I think “what the heck did they join up for” and “can I convert them from no sales to some sales” with as little effort as possible. So this is why for the new Merchant Interface at Paid On Results (going live this week) we came up with Auto Grouping.

Basically in a nut shell it allows the Merchant to set criteria for who should be in what group. So let’s say you want you’re active and you un-active Affiliates in different groups so you can communicate to them a different message, view your reports and stats for each groups differently but do it in a way where you don’t have to lift a finger. And that’s what this new feature will do! A switched on Affiliate Manager can work on the guys doing nothing and try and get them motivated, while still being able to service the ones who are making the effort and of course the flip side is that if you’re a lazy Affiliate Manager (and we know your out their) you can ignore the guys not making a bean until the day they do something as per what Jason has listed above, making a win, win situation for all and not leaving you open to doing ridiculous things like removing someone just because they have yet got round to promoting you.