Sponsor promo days piss me off sometimes...

[HowlingWulf]

I'm a fan of the random prize patrol type. For a pay period one sale gets you one ticket and at end of period X tickets are chosen for random prizes. That way I feel I have a chance against the 'big boys'. I'll spend effort to promote that. I don't like the 'Send 100 sales in a pay period and we'll send you an iPod!' type promos.

[Toby]

Just make the site convert and retain. If I'm making sales and rebills I can buy my own iPod.

[hony]

Originally Posted by Toby

Just make the site convert and retain. If I'm making sales and rebills I can buy my own iPod.

Exactly -- the only measure I look at is the cheques I receive. Actually I don't even look at individual cheques but rather at the year-to-date income.

I remember once getting an AWE check for a huge amount and going to investigate and found I'd won a random prize -- I hadn't even known the promotion was running so it had zero impact on how much I was promoting them.

Presumably these deals attract more webmasters or they wouldn't do them -- but surely it will attract more newbies who are hardly who they want.

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

I'm a fan of the random prize patrol type. For a pay period one sale gets you one ticket and at end of period X tickets are chosen for random prizes. That way I feel I have a chance against the 'big boys'. I'll spend effort to promote that. I don't like the 'Send 100 sales in a pay period and we'll send you an iPod!' type promos.

Me too. I about fell over when I opened a $500 check from PimpRoll for one of those, I didn't even know I won, lol. And I like the points too, I keep telling myself I'll trade them in for something eventually.

But I love rev-share the most, not some sell more this day and get a bunch of money crap. Rev-share is what kept me going through the slump of the last few months. Thankfully, sales are picking up this month, which for me historically, is when they do.