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Originally posted by Odie
I'm glad that you brought this up. This has actually happened to me with a webmaster.
What I've noticed is that alot of webmasters sign up, send some traffic and wait for sign-ups. They then get upset or change sponsors when they don't see any. This is a mistake. Why not take the time to get in touch with your sales rep and find out what you can do to change your results!
I'm a sales rep and part of my job is to get in contact with my affiliates and keep a rapport with them. Many times I am ignored by the webmaster b/c they think I'm just spamming them. Keeping in touch w/ your sales reps helps when u run into these issues. It can be as easy as changing the membership trials to changing the style of the banner. But if you don't allow the sales people to help and don't give the sponsor a chance, then you're really not putting any work into it and you're losing out on possible sales.
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I totally agree with you! AND, I also can see where people have been S*&t on by shaved stats. Not to sound spammy, but promoting sponsors through a network like RealBigCash can alleviate the shaving concerns... because WE don't want to get screwed and because we don't want our affiliates to ultimately get screwed, we cross-check all of the sales that are recorded in our system w/ those of the corresponding sponsor program.
So, say for example that you joined RealBigCash as an affiliate and you wanted to promote site XYZ from sponsor ABC... not only do we monitor the sales that OUR program says you've made for XYZ, but we go into the stats program of sponsor ABC to be sure that THEY have registered that sale as well. They don't want US to claim a higher sales rate because then they have to pay us more, and we want our affiliates to be paid on every damn sale they make so they keep making $$... so the only option is to report the true sales.
Cheers!
$hannon