How irritating is this? You get an email offer or see an offer (for something you actually want) on a website, click the link and end up on a page that says something like, “Offer not available in your area”.
Otherwise, you send out an offer like the Maxim magazine offer (pictured left), and your non-U.S.-based subscribers get redirected to SurveyScout instead.
Residents of Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand (or anywhere else that isn't the U.S.) end up on those pages far too often when marketers send U.S.-only offers to their entire list of newsletter subscribers.
There are two big downsides to this.
First of all, you may lose those subscribers through alienation.
Secondly, your affiliate manager may terminate your affiliation with their program when they receive thousands of invalid clicks which then wrecks their EPC.
If you accept newsletters signups from all over the world, subscribers from countries other than the U.S. probably represent a HUGE percentage of your list.
Here are a 3 ways you can avoid losing those subscribers and your affiliations. [Read more…]
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