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Feed Flare Media – A Concept Is Born
Well, looks like I am going to be an affiliate network owner after all! After many hours of deliberation and weighing out the pros and cons of being an owner of a affiliate network. I decided today after my final platform review was done that it is time to move forward with my business plans and start the design process of the website and network.
Don’t get to excited yet – it’s going to be a few months down the road before everything is set to go live for affiliates to join my network. I want everything just perfect before launch and I also want to make sure I have a pile of good offers for everyone to chose from as well with the best payouts I can give.
Here are a few bedrock principles that Feed Flare Media is going to be built around. I am going to be keeping some of the information secret 
, for now!
Service and education are going to be two things I am going to focus a lot on. Those are two very key area’s that most networks are extremely lacking in. Well, 95% of the networks anyways. Giving affiliates the right tools to do there jobs is key to everyone’s success – right???
Extreme affiliate screening will also be done prior to anyone every getting approved for an account. I use to get so mad when an offer I had converting on a network would get pulled from that network because some dumb ass affiliate does nothing but produce fraudulent leads. I am going to weed you out before you join my network so you don’t end up killing someone’s campaign, or costing us all a bunch of money. I am going to be investing tons of hours and money getting this network off the ground, to heck if someone is going to ruin it!
The same is going to apply to advertisers as well. I want stable, long term advertisers as part of my network so affiliates can all trust that they can build a solid business that is going to last as long as possible.
I personally believe that anyone and everyone should enjoy all aspects of there work. Not just what they make from working. So I am going to take all the frustrations I have had and put them into building a network that people can be proud to be a part of. There is stress and always will be stress when you work for yourself, don’t get me wrong, but what ever I can do to remove some of that stress – I will.
The platform I have chosen to use for my network also has absolutely no tools built into it for me (or anyone else who uses this same platform – and there is 3200 other companies who do) to steel leads from affiliates, like with what happens to Direct Track network affiliates. The platform creators built there system to be trust worthy, honest and dead on accurate – and after a 90 minuet demo today – I can honestly say – it is and it’s packed with features I wish all networks would have.
So with all that being said, it’s time for me to finalize how this new network of mine is going to look – I am so excited!!!
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- Tags: affiliate network, affiliates, design process, network
Well done Collin. If you need any help, any beta testing I am sure there are plenty of us willing to help. Go for it and good luck. If you can get it right, you will quickly outpace the other affiliate managers.
Les
Reply@Les:
ReplyHey Les, any tips you have are more then welcome. I might actually do a post on this too.
Let us know when you’re ready to fire everything up and I will write a post referring people on to you as well. I only have one tip – and you have already covered that – look after both the advertisers and the publishers and everyone will think your god. You were talking about how some affiliate managers steal leads. While they do it to the big affiliates, just imagine how much they are screwin the small guys, the publishers that don’t have any of the tracking tools – there are probably 100 small publishers for every big publisher. I am amazed that I could advertise a product, send almost 300 leads yet get only one sale – and then have that reversed a month later. And they wonder why you get turned off affiliate advertising. So, if you accept smaller publishers into your network – look after them as well.
I like your approach – stay true to it.
Les
Replyyour going to get hit hard by scammy marketers and deab beat non paying advertisers
Get ready for a roller coaster
ReplyHey Colin,
This is fantastic news and I wish you the best of luck.
If I ever feel worthy i’ll definitely try and join
.
Hope you are well.
Forest.
ReplyI wish you the best Collin! Running an affiliate network is a lot of work but if you do it right, are honest, and can help publishers you will do just fine. If you have any questions about anything let me know!
ReplySounds good, can’t wait to see it. I know a few affiliates who have taken the step to create their own networks. Best of luck!
ReplyWhat are you going to be using as the backend, Direct Track, Link Trust, HitPath, or HasOffers?
Good luck with it.
ReplyI am going to be using has offers.
ReplyI wish you all the best for this new endeavor. Keep us posted on how it goes!
Till then,
Jean
ReplyGood luck with this promising project Collin. I think an affiliate marketer is the ideal person to start an affiliate network. They are the ones who know all the ins and outs of the business. They know what it takes to create an affiliate network that meets everyone’s needs.
Your plan of aggressively filtering out affiliates & advertisers is a good one. To build a solid reputation, you don’t want to let one bad apple risk ruining it all. You just have to avoid the temptation of opening the doors down the road in an attempt to improve profits.
ReplyWhat’s with all the spammers copy & pasting other people’s comments these days? Who’s the tool who released that software? If I had a blog, I’d be raging on those people and banning them all.
Reply@Laptop: I’ve noticed it at a lot of other sites too. Some sites are cracking down on them. Hopefully they can be deterred on a larger scale.
Till then,
Jean
Replywow great news collin
i would love to be able to do that one day! persistence and determination 
great site by the way!
ReplyIts excellent content nice post.
Replygood luck guys.
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ReplyHey Collin
Making quite a bit on Neverblue now since i last commented which i’m really happy about 
About time! hopefully will be a success at it one day like yourself! again great site have bookmarked it and use it as a reference 
take care, Alex
ReplyHey Colin,
Any chance you are going to share the platform provider?
Good to see this taking off – sounds like heck a lot of work though.
Thanks,
ReplySteve
Oh, sorry, didn’t see Justo’s question – what were your main criteria for choosing HasOffers over other networks?
ReplyThere are a few reason why I chose that platform over others which I will post on soon.
ReplyI wish you good luck in your new adventure! I totally understand where you are coming from regarding the selection process that you will use when choosing affiliates.
ReplyI am hopping that with very hard work on Affiliate marketing, maybe i would be able to achieve Financial Freedom in 2 years time.
Reply@Stephanie:
ReplyThat’s a definitely achievable goal if you work hard and diligently. Don’t be disappointed if it takes a bit longer, as the competition is going up by the day, but if you put in 100% sincere effort and dedication, things will definitely work out to where you can depend on affiliate marketing to provide enough profits to sustain yourself independently.