Comments on: So How Do We Tell Networks & Merchants What We Do?

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By: Nils

Nils — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:11:49 +0000

I work for an agency and I would love to see PDF’s or a link to page where the affiliate explain a bit about themselves.

If I am in doubt, I put the application on hold and write an email asking whatever questions I may have.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:58:01 +0000

Hi LucyP – the PDF is a few days old so no we’ve not used it yet direct to merchants – although we will do. Usually though we do contact networks/merchants and try and question rejections etc.

However, an email often isn’t enough to answer the merchant’s doubts, so hopefully in future we’ll be able to supply them with this document essentially outlining what we do.

Jason

By: LucyP

LucyP — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:13:45 +0000

I think it is beneficial for both sides to see exactly what they are getting with each other, a merchant knows what to expect from an affiliate and an affiliate knows what is acceptable to that merchant so that you can start promoting in the right way. Really good idea, have you tried to contact the merchant direct or through the network on programs that you have been turned down by with the pdf to see if you can alter their opinions.

By: Joe Connor

Joe Connor — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:54:03 +0000

Darn it, another blog post I agree with completely.
We get turned down for Buy.at/Launhpad1 for pretty much every program these days because most of the people we knew have moved on to be replaced by people who insist on phoning me up (I don’t pick the phone up unless I know who’s on the other end and Buy.at have caller ID disabled) so they don’t get to talk to me very often which is just as well because I’m a grumpy sod.
I agree the merchant profile thingies aren’t really up to the job and there should at least be notes on the network systems which newbie admin staff can read before they decline us yet again.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:29:55 +0000

An agency for affiliates – yeah I could see that being useful. We want to do stuff with merchants, but just don’t have the time to blow our trumpet to them – and if we’re not on radar through sales, there’s usually no way to get them involved or taking a chance.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:38:47 +0000

always thought it would be mega useful if affiliates had the services of a dedicated independant ‘affiliate manager’ – someone in the know, trusted by the networks who knew exactly what our sites were capable of and who could promote us to the networks/merchants/agencies and broker the best deals for us, for a small! financial reward – it would save all this faffing about.