Comments on: 5 Things to Do to Get Affiliate Application Declined http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/2009/11/11/5-things-to-do-to-get-affiliate-application-declined/ Geno talks about affiliate marketing, leadership, etc Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Geno http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/2009/11/11/5-things-to-do-to-get-affiliate-application-declined/comment-page-1/#comment-4827 Geno Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:15:59 +0000 http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/?p=4440#comment-4827 Thank you, <strong>Trisha</strong>. Thank you, Trisha.

]]> By: Trisha Lyn Fawver http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/2009/11/11/5-things-to-do-to-get-affiliate-application-declined/comment-page-1/#comment-4824 Trisha Lyn Fawver Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:58:13 +0000 http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/?p=4440#comment-4824 Geno, you're spot on! I couldn't agree more with your assessment of this kind of affiliate application! Geno, you’re spot on! I couldn’t agree more with your assessment of this kind of affiliate application!

]]> By: Geno http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/2009/11/11/5-things-to-do-to-get-affiliate-application-declined/comment-page-1/#comment-4748 Geno Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:12:26 +0000 http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/?p=4440#comment-4748 <b>Kristy</b>, you bring up a point which is worth an article of its own -- merchants/AMs with stringent affiliate approval criteria. Some of these criteria are even more unjust than they are stringent. I can name dozens of merchants (both top brand names, and lesser known ones) that make the wrong factors their key points of approving or denying an affiliate application. Since the above-quoted affiliate application example comes from CJ, it is worth mentioning that multiple CJ-based merchants judge affiliates by their 5-bar ranking. If you're below a certain level of ranking (4 or 5 bars), you get an automatic decline. And the problem is only <i>partly</i> with the unjust approach. The bigger problem, which none of these merchants/AMs realize, is the fact that by so doing they are harming their own affiliate programs. I've been 1-bar and newbie affiliates grow to 4 bars withing one month! Education (<i>merchant</i> education, that is) is desperately lacking. Kristy, you bring up a point which is worth an article of its own — merchants/AMs with stringent affiliate approval criteria. Some of these criteria are even more unjust than they are stringent. I can name dozens of merchants (both top brand names, and lesser known ones) that make the wrong factors their key points of approving or denying an affiliate application.

Since the above-quoted affiliate application example comes from CJ, it is worth mentioning that multiple CJ-based merchants judge affiliates by their 5-bar ranking. If you’re below a certain level of ranking (4 or 5 bars), you get an automatic decline. And the problem is only partly with the unjust approach. The bigger problem, which none of these merchants/AMs realize, is the fact that by so doing they are harming their own affiliate programs. I’ve been 1-bar and newbie affiliates grow to 4 bars withing one month!

Education (merchant education, that is) is desperately lacking.

]]> By: KirstyM http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/2009/11/11/5-things-to-do-to-get-affiliate-application-declined/comment-page-1/#comment-4747 KirstyM Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:50:30 +0000 http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/?p=4440#comment-4747 Good to see a post on this issue from another viewpoint - forums are full of posts from affiliates complaining about not getting accepted (although I'd say very few have put in an application of this sort of rubbish magnitude). Whilst this is probably an extreme example of an application the point that its important to use the chance to communicate as much as possible about your intent and means to promote the programme is well made! That said, too many merchants and affiliate managers seem to have very twitchy "decline" fingers, particularly when affiliates are limited by a network as to how many sites they can list. Many tend to decline first and ask questions later when presented with a site that doesn't immediately appear to be relevant. Good to see a post on this issue from another viewpoint – forums are full of posts from affiliates complaining about not getting accepted (although I’d say very few have put in an application of this sort of rubbish magnitude).

Whilst this is probably an extreme example of an application the point that its important to use the chance to communicate as much as possible about your intent and means to promote the programme is well made!

That said, too many merchants and affiliate managers seem to have very twitchy “decline” fingers, particularly when affiliates are limited by a network as to how many sites they can list. Many tend to decline first and ask questions later when presented with a site that doesn’t immediately appear to be relevant.

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