Affiliate Marketing

Here is a question that I received from Samuel in Nigeria:

Greetings Dear Rosalind,

I bought your Super Affiliate Handbook and I really like it. It is highly informative when compared to Googlecash.

Anyway, I am from Nigeria and I love everything about making money on the Internet. I operate a website and have a growing subscriber list which is all about empowering Nigerians through the Internet. Because of my desire to make money on the net and to assist fellow Nigerians who come to my website to subscribe, I have to be properly informed through seminars, information products and most importanly veterans like you.

Now, one of the problems besieging most people in Nigeria is… [Read more…]

I read a report today at PC World that will warm the cockles of all honest, white-hat affiliate hearts… Court Shuts Down Alleged Spyware Operation. The site was shut down for “secretly loading spyware onto millions of computers after promising users free screen savers and video files”.

Gee, sound like anyone we know and that I ranted at length about not too long ago? Seems that despite a $3M fine, bad practices continue at Zango according to Ben Edelman.

The desired result of such news should be that affiliate purveyors of such crapola see the light and go white… ya well, in a perfect world.

Here's a question I received this week from D.R. about the potential for affiliates to get ripped off by merchants under certain circumstances.

Is it true that ebook writers using an email capture box on their sales pages are ripping affiliates off when customers being sent to them sign up for the emails, then they sell them a book weeks or months later and we never see a dime for it.

Also if a ebook writer has 2 forms of checkout on his order page if the customer uses the optional one (not clickbank) then again we get no commission.

You have the clout, can you find this out and answer in your newsletter. I received an email from a guru about this very practice. If true then they will lose ALL affiliate selling their product by the thousands.

Thanks.

Well D.R., I'm not sure that I have any clout, but I do understand your concern and do know something about these issues. [Read more…]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later… I was going through a small stack of morning mail that included 6 affiliate checks. What I normally do is open the envelope, remove the contents and throw the envelope in the paper shredder for recycling.

Well, I pulled out the contents of an envelope from Friendfinder, shredded the envelope and when I looked for the check that came with the affiliate letter … it wasn't there! Could it be that there was no check?

Nope.

I sifted through the tiny shreds and sure enough, there was a bit from ‘dley.com'… or Medley.com, the company that handles Friendfinder's affiliate commission checks. :-/

Bummer.