Advice on building our affiliate program

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Originally Posted by Greenie

If there's a topic that you can contribute to, then post. I know I've signed up to promote many programs based on their reps being helpful on the boards. But be cautious! There's a fine line between being helpful & being spammy.

That's the key, to interact with the community selflessly. In other words, offering advice when it would appear to be a complete waste of your time doing so. A lot of reps/owners swoop into a thread when there's an opportunity to whore their program. That may be an effective way to get their signature clicked, but it's very short term and an ineffective as a way of branding a program. Reps who become part of a community not only find affiliates, but those affiliates, and other community members who never signed up, will continually suggest the program to others in the future as a means of camaraderie, way beyond the life of any thread.

Of course, as a rep, you're often busy with the daily tasks of keeping a program afloat. As long as you can squeeze in a few moments a day to hit a thread or two, people will remember you. But if you stop in for 5 minutes and bump 2 weeks of expired 'good morning' threads, you'll piss them right off.