Affiliate Marketing Disclosed!
PDF
Affiliate Marketers Beware! to
sign up as an affiliate thinking you will be getting a discount in the
form of a commission on the
product you are buying because you use your own link, is very misleading.
Most times it takes over a
month and 1/2 for the transaction to clear. To top that off, most
'newbees' do some things wrong when creating their link and do not get
tracked anyway, or paid the commission.
Then, there is this
equation most program referrals require a minimum commission, before
they will send you a check.
$100 is sometimes set as
the default minimum hidden away in the fine print that goes undiscovered
by you for months, maybe years. In most cases, it takes several sales to
reach the minimum.
Get this, if there isn't
any action in your affiliate account after a certain period of time they start
deducting money from that already small morsel to cover their so called
carrying charges.
If you are not a skilled serious
affiliate marketer with serious intention on promoting that product in
question, becoming an affiliate to get a discount only steals the
commission from the affiliate marketer that did the advertising that you
originally saw and, in the bitter end, the company keeps your commission
which should have been someone else's in the first place.
Then some of those
company's want to charge you for the writing of your affiliate commission
check (should you ever earn one) or the transaction fees of an automatic deposit.
I believe it to be fact
that only a small 3% (if not less than this) of the affiliates that sign
up actually get that first check. This means that 97% of the time the
company handling the account, manufacturer, or seller gets to keep WHAT?
Your Commission! They call it free advertising. at your expense! Did you
ever see an ad how they made all that big money at little or any expense?
In my fair opinion, I
believe there should be a law stating that in order to sign up as an
affiliate you first need to purchase the product in question. This should
be done by you as Standard Common Courtesy.
That Standard Common
Courtesy would help get the Sellers Advertised Commission into the
Affiliate Marketers Pocket instead of the Seller's Fat Bank Account.
Most products require
several sales by you in order to get that refund on the commission. Most
new people in affiliate marketing do not stick with it long enough or have
the marketing experience to get any commission checks.
In order to recognize a
Worthy Affiliate Program, keep in mind the following:
Therefore, signing up as an affiliate just to get a discount, not only
steals from the rightful Affiliate Marketer, it also makes the company
selling the product more money because the commission probably won't get
paid.
I've only scratched the surface.
|