Earlier this morning affiliates of a program — which positions itself as one lead by a “full-time affiliate manager” — received an interesting email. Here is an excerpt from it (with sensitive information removed): In attempts to make our group of affiliates stronger and to provide a better experience to […]
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Got a message from a client this morning: I’d like to disapprove this affiliate for illegal use of coupons. I don’t know how they get proprietary coupons but Next Jump is a private program. Another is for cart abandonment. The other two are expired… Went to the affiliate’s site, took
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Rhianna’s comment to my previous post has brought up an extremely important point. Some merchants believe they are being proactive when they terminate relationship with affiliates or remove them from their affiliate programs. Email notifications where merchants tell (or would “command” be a better choice of verbs here?) their affiliates:
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A few days ago a friend of mine was terminated from an affiliate program of a Fortune 100 merchant which is run on an affiliate network, and managed by the network itself. I do not want to focus on the names here (no matter how much I wish to do
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