Sponsor submitted galleries

[Simon]

Hi everyone

I agree that submitting to places that list you already doesn't seem to be fair dealing.

I do think Emmanuelle has a good point about the need to test things. Coming from a (pre-internet days) direct marketing background, the idea of "test and retest and then test again" is pretty deeply ingrained here.

Coming up with good ways to test new tours, join pages and other "sponsor side responsibilities" is definitely important... but it's not always easy to do.

We used to get most traffic via search engines and our own feeder sites, so testing was pretty easy. Now that we've expanded to offering hosted sites and galleries for LLs and TGPs, it's not as easy to duplicate that traffic for testing purposes.

The best I've come up with so far is offering some LL/TGP owners an additional account ID that we use exclusively for new things we want to test. That way the sales still generate the usual commission to them, but we can track the stats separately.

Anyone with ideas about this, please do jump in.

Simon