What do you want from a program these days?

[ecchi]

Just clicked on your sig, you really need to do something about your "our sites" page. If I was looking for a sponsor that would convince me to put you on my "never use, even if they do offer the threesome" list, it is seriously saying "avoid this sponsor".

1. The presentation of your "our sites" page is overly pretentious, it says "we care more about looking clever than doing a good job" that would scare me off ASP

2. Your "our sites" page should include clear clean HTML links to your sites. Not giving them is telling me that they are so bad that you don't want me to see them, because I'd never want to waste my time pushing your site once I saw how dreadful the tour is.

[Wizzo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Just clicked on your sig, you really need to do something about your "our sites" page. If I was looking for a sponsor that would convince me to put you on my "never use, even if they do offer the threesome" list, it is seriously saying "avoid this sponsor".

1. The presentation of your "our sites" page is overly pretentious, it says "we care more about looking clever than doing a good job" that would scare me off ASP

2. Your "our sites" page should include clear clean HTML links to your sites. Not giving them is telling me that they are so bad that you don't want me to see them, because I'd never want to waste my time pushing your site once I saw how dreadful the tour is.

Yea I have brought that up and it is on the list to be fixed, however I didn't think it was as high of priority than some of the other stuff I've had the designers working on, but we will have a new sites page very soon.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Wizzo

however I didn't think it was as high of priority

Very high. There is no point in anyone sending traffic if your tour won't convert. And if you appear to be afraid to show your tour, any WM looking at your site will assume it is a crap converter. Worse, they will also assume that you know it is a crap converter and are don't care enough to correct it. Think about it from our point of view. If your living depended on sponsors making sales, and you came across one whose attitude appears to be "Yeah, we are shit at selling, we know our affiliates will be better off elsewhere, but we want them to send us their traffic, so let's try and hide the facts from them to trick them into promoting us."

If I were you (assuming your tours are not crap) I'd make this your number one priority. Not only are the only affiliates you are liable to get newbies, with little idea how to create traffic; but more importantly people will look at your site, form an opinion from it as it is, and talk about it to other WMs. Remember a bad reputation is hard to shift once achieved.

I'd also strongly recommend you put your advertising (to WMs) on hold (including things like sig links) until this is fixed, because at the moment you are paying good money to get WMs to put you on their "never use" lists.

[Wizzo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Very high. There is no point in anyone sending traffic if your tour won't convert. And if you appear to be afraid to show your tour, any WM looking at your site will assume it is a crap converter. Worse, they will also assume that you know it is a crap converter and are don't care enough to correct it. Think about it from our point of view. If your living depended on sponsors making sales, and you came across one whose attitude appears to be "Yeah, we are shit at selling, we know our affiliates will be better off elsewhere, but we want them to send us their traffic, so let's try and hide the facts from them to trick them into promoting us."

If I were you (assuming your tours are not crap) I'd make this your number one priority. Not only are the only affiliates you are liable to get newbies, with little idea how to create traffic; but more importantly people will look at your site, form an opinion from it as it is, and talk about it to other WMs. Remember a bad reputation is hard to shift once achieved.

I'd also strongly recommend you put your advertising (to WMs) on hold (including things like sig links) until this is fixed, because at the moment you are paying good money to get WMs to put you on their "never use" lists.

I completely understand your point, my priority is to take care of current affiliate needs first but it will be fixed this week and thanks for the input.