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Frustrations, Frustrations and Even More Frustrations!!!
Well, what started out to be a good month has turned into a pile of crap very fast. Over the past week and a half I have been noticing a major drop in income coming from my organic sites. I was not to sure what was going on at first as I was focused on Media Buying and then the emails started to flow in. My main advertiser “Just Think Media” (a 23 year old named Jessie) was losing (has lost) his merchant account – again!!! and a huge portion of my sites are not generating any leads.
Now, all the sites currently do not have the right offers on them and are dead, income wise. There is still a ton of traffic coming to the sites and I am still getting well over 200 clicks per day to offers, but not to the right offers. Right now I am just testing which offers will convert on the traffic which is what I did before. The nice thing is, I have over 30,000 unique visitors a month all looking for health supplements of some sort. So it is just a matter of me trying to figure out how to make money off of it.
Side Note
Whats funny is, I got an email on the weekend that Tracking 202 has been sold, I wander if there is a tracking link issue maybe! Just a thought!
What is even more frustrating!
It’s frustrating when your income goes to crap over night, but what frustrates me more is the fact that the affiliate networks will allow such a poor advertiser to run on there networks. As affiliates, we have to have some level of trust for the networks in which we deal with so when an offer goes live, we should be able to trust they are from an advertiser who is reputable and is secure in his business. There is no way in hell a 23 year kid fits that bill.
The problem is, networks don’t really give a shit who the advertiser is, as long as they pass a credit check, there in! It’s all a money grab for the advertiser and the networks. There is no thought put into longevity and sustainability. If there was, problems like this would not be showing up in affiliate marketing – at all. Worst of it is, Just think Media has a track record of screwing networks and he has even admitted to one manager I spoke with that he scrubs on his merchant account to hide the scrubs from the networks. Do networks not talk to each other to find out if a new advertiser is reliable or not????
This exact same problem happened with another type of product I was running with in September where a 21 year old stiffed a network to the tune of 3 Million, because he could.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Yes, there is a solution and it all starts with the networks being more responsible! First they need to start thinking of long term instead of short term. Short term is fine for people with a big budgets who can blast out 1000 leads a day and not really care how long an offer is good for. They make enough in the short term. For us who are trying to build a solid business, we can’t and it’s that simple!
An example,
I have a partner lined up to do a media buy with right now through media buys coach. We had a site lined up to do our buy on, we built all our pages and got everything set up. The deal fell through in the last minuet which I am kind of glad it did because all the dame offers are gone now.
Hey Networks!!! It takes time to build campaigns and get things going you know. If your advertisers drop out that fast – your losing money too! Right?
In total, I would say that my partner and I plus my graphic designer (who I am going to post about very soon cause this guy is nails!!!) wasted almost 2 weeks worth of time setting everything up. At least we can go live faster next time!
Sorry if this post was rather long, but there was and is clearly a few things I needed to get off my chest. Now if you will excuse me, I need to find a way to make some money fast!!!
- 15 Comments
- Tags: affiliate marketing, affiliate networks, Just think Media, media buying, Media Buys Coach
The problem with affiliate marketing is this, if summin goes wrong, its deep trouble.
Replystop messing with small networks man – work with top quality and the ones that has a name in the industry. if they dont paythe highest so what you get paid!
this happens all the time to affiiates that go off to smaller networks because they think they are benefiting fr some reason. stick to the big guys man
ReplyI work Ian with who I think is big anyways. Who could you recommend?
ReplyHi Collin
One of the big issues I think is that your still considered a newbie and a small fish. I don’t think networks would scam the big names in the business. Networks would make sure the big names got the quality advertisers.
Keep grinding away though. You are well on your way to becoming a ‘big’ name yourself. Get over all of these hurdles and before you know it, people will be looking at you the same way they look at john chow and company.
In the mean time, keep sticking it up to them – you will win out in the finish.
Les
ReplyIf you don’t want to deal with this go to clickbank, products are there forever some still 1998.
ReplyYou might to read Jesse’s latest blog post
http://jessewillms.com/?p=20
ReplyReading it!
ReplyWell, I read it and I am going to call B/S on a lot of what he has said in that post.
ReplyYou make money because o advertisers like this. Are you converting as good with other offers? No. Your comment on a 23yr old not able to have a secure business, man your a joke. This is rebills. Also JT will be back soon
ReplyThere was a reason why I was kind of attacking him Matt due to his age. I don’t have a problem with re-bills at all. If consumers would read before they acted they would see that fact on all the sites. I do have other offers and sites that convert and I am getting other conversions on JT sites as well.
ReplyGreat article
I like it.
ReplySometimes we need to trust other people to provide some services for us. And sometimes those people fail us. I think that it depends on the person – this could be a result of leak of knowledge or just too “cool” attitude to work. Or just coincidence, even bad luck. There are as many cases as people participating in those failures.
Replythis happens all the time to affiiates that go off to smaller networks because they think they are benefiting fr some reason. stick to the big guys man
ReplyThis seems to be a major problem for affiliates. I agree that working with the bigger sites is best….
ReplyThis isn’t just a problem with affiliate marketing, all REAL businesses have tons of problems.
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