If this isn't your first visit here then you may have noticed that some of the affiliate banners on my blog have disappeared. I used to have a PPC-Coach banner on here as well as a Hostgator banner, both of which had my affiliate link in them so if you signed up for either service I'd get a commission. Just simple affiliate marketing. So why'd I remove them? Well, in the case of Hostgator it's because I felt far too many people get screwed out of commissions they've rightfully earned with Hostgator. They say they pay you $50 per signup, which they do but if person who signed up quits after a couple months it seems they do a chargeback and remove your commission. Hey, it's not my fault if Hostgator can't retain their subscribers. My job as an affiliate is to send them a subscriber. It's their job to satisfy the subscriber. I dealt with a lot of this kind of thing when doing email and zip submit offers, but come on, Hostgator is a big company and should be above that kind of thing. If they want to cover their risks more, then they should offer affiliates a lower payout, saying $25 or whatever, and then pay them properly. I'm not going to promote things that I won't get paid for, because there are plenty of other affiliate programs that will pay me properly.
The other one was PPC-Coach. I don't want to talk bad about this program, because so many people say they get a lot out of it. But I can only feel good about promoting something in the IM niche if I personally have gotten a lot out of it, and in this case I haven't. I'm not the most clear-minded person, I can be a bit of a space cadet, but I can usually make up for that by being a hard worker. On PPC-Coach though, the approach is to basically give you a whole bunch of resources and leave it up to you to make sense out of them and apply them. As a PPC noob and as someone with very little knowledge of scripting languages and the technical side of things, I spent about 4 months being thoroughly confused. And I didn't feel that the staff were interested in dealing with someone who needed handholding. So I quit. Since then I have been using nothing but free traffic methods, but will get back into PPC once I've reached some of my goals for free traffic. But since I quit using PPC-Coach, I didn't feel I could promote it anymore.
In any case, I keep this blog as a kind of diary and way to share what I experience for anyone who gets anything out of it. I don't really see this blog as a source of income, so it was an easy decision to remove the banners.
Friday, October 30, 2009
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2 comments:
Quick question did you ask for any help?
That's the key to using the site right, which I do explain to everyone over and over and over. If you don't ask for help, we can't give it to you. With 16 moderators, 2 paid assistant coaches and myself, I find your words hard to believe.
I did, yes. My questions were pretty much brushed off as far as I'm concerned. After numerous tickets I still couldn't get any conrete help to get the tracker set up, and was doing campaigns blind. Maybe the tracker is not the core of the program, but it's pushed on us as essential and then I couldn't get any help when it didn't work.
As far as help with techniques the moderators do a good job on the forums.
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