Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: merchant offers multiple payment
Hi,
I'm not sure if I m going to sign up when the
merchant offers multiple payment other than
Clickbank.
I have seen a site where the merchant offers
at least 6 differents way to pay but the affiliate program
works only for Clickbank.
What is your opinion ?
A merchant can offer a variety of payment options through Clickbank itself, I have no problem with them when they offer more info about that part of it.
I have a problem where they offer paypal, direct payment through their server, etc. and don't live up to the promise they have, in effect, made to affiliates who promote their product.
Send them an email and ask them what their practice is, and how they track referrals from Clickbank that don't use the Clickbank payment option. Then make your decision based upon their reply.
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I have a problem where they offer paypal, direct payment through their server, etc. and don't live up to the promise they have, in effect, made to affiliates who promote their product.
Another one is where merchants who use ClickBank (or another network) include a link to the affiliate program from the sales page.
No thankyou (if I'm promoting).
Can you think of an offline example of a company who pay their people commission putting a sign on the desk saying "if you'd like to keep the salesman's commission yourself, just fill in this form"?
No I can't either.
All the best,
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: merchant offers multiple payment
Quote:
I'm not sure if I m going to sign up when the
merchant offers multiple payment other than
Clickbank.
Yep, I don't like like that, either.
Various affiliate merchants do a variety of things to divert commissions from affiliates, such as...
Diverting visitors to telephone calls that don't earn commissions.
Divertising visitors with pop-ups or pop-unders to buy products which don't earn a commission.
Creating so-called sales pages that concentrate on getting newsletter
subscriptions instead of making sales.
Etc, etc. I'm sure you've seen other tactics that aren't in the best interests of affiliates.
Should we avoid such merchants?
Maybe.
However, I think it's very important that we don't lose sight of what's most important to the affiliate (apart from choosing high quality products you feel good about promoting), and that's the conversion rate, or your earnings per click.
In other words, how much do you earn on average for each visitor you send to a merchant? With one affiliate merchant you might be fortunate enough to earn 50 cents or even $1 per visitor, with another it might be 1 cent or less.
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I recently saw a Clickbank merchant who put AdSense ads on his site. I guess the theory is affiliates will send traffic and he'll benefit from the clicks.
Some people do things like this and couldn't care less what the affiliates think.
Others will change things if the problems are brought to their attention. If you find a product you want to promote, it doesn't hurt to send the merchant a message.
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