Sponsor submitted galleries

[emmanuelle]

I am a sponsor, and I also submit galleries occasionally. While my aim is not to compete with affiliates, I will admit that receiving 100% of the sale can be sweet.
Despite this, my motivation for these occasional submits is to test. I want to see how well new tours or gallery templates convert, rather than ask affiliates to be guinea pigs. Furthermore, submitting gives me a refresher course on what affiliates go through regularly, and helps me to respond quickly to their needs. It really helped me to improve our program, and anticipate what affiliates would be looking for.
Many of the BIG programs have entire departments dedicated to in house promotion that competes directly with their affiliates. I do not mask my identity, my program url is part of my email addy, so as not to mislead anyone.
Do whatever makes the most sense for your business, as you do every day :-)

[Useless]

One of the other problems with some sponsors submitting is that they don't seem to understand that no matter how many different domains your are submitting, you always use the same name and email addy. It's typically new programs or ones you've just never heard of that do it, but they'll submit 5 galleries a day, each for a different one of their paysites, but it will be a different name and email address on each submission. Of course, they are submitted from the same IP, so you know it's the same damned person/group.

[Surfn]

Just put in your affiliate code

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

One of the other problems with some sponsors submitting is that they don't seem to understand that no matter how many different domains your are submitting, you always use the same name and email addy. It's typically new programs or ones you've just never heard of that do it, but they'll submit 5 galleries a day, each for a different one of their paysites, but it will be a different name and email address on each submission. Of course, they are submitted from the same IP, so you know it's the same damned person/group.

What about sponsors that use 1 template and submit 2 times a day for 30 days in a row...also ignoring the rejection emails for overused templates...they're personally my favorite as they end up getting blacklisted eventually for being annoying.