footballaffiliate
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In the run up to LAC in February I'm sure that many of you who are attending are now getting loads of emails asking for meeting requests from excited and friendly advertisers. I've been to LAC and the October conference a few times now and I'm always surprised how outgoing many advertisers are to get space on your websites, yet a few months down the line their attitude can change and you don't get paid, don't get emails answered etc. So, to help other affiliates, who will you be treating with caution at LAC this year?
My list for starters - won't be talking to these people at all for the following reasons:
Revenuejet- very friendly team, however we tried these guys out, trusting them because of their helpfulness and gave them a large amount of traffic but it mysteriously did not turn into any revenue. When we removed the links from our site we were also mysteriously still getting click throughs and registrations several weeks after the links were removed!
iAffiliates- bad advertising practice - popping out cross promotion windows and affiliates not being rewarded (as documented here on AGD)
Brightshare - non-payment of affiliates and bad press as documented of AGD
Any Binary Options people - just don't like them, don't think it will convert with my traffic
Any scratch card people - they're too aggressive at trying to get you to advertise them. Don't think it's a sustainable business
BWin - arranged a meeting with these guys at a previous conference and visited their stand at my time but they didn't want anything to do with me and were busy. Told me to come back later, so I did, and they were too busy to talk to me again! They've had their chance from me.
888 - don't like their affiliate system at all. It's not transparent enough, as documented here on AFG.
Europartners - documented AFG issues
I guess all advertisers should be treated with some level of healthy caution. You should check out any history on the forums like AFG before working with them. The size of their stand or the apparent helpfulness of their employees and promises made at conferences does not necessarily equate to a good advertiser in my experience.
My list for starters - won't be talking to these people at all for the following reasons:
Revenuejet- very friendly team, however we tried these guys out, trusting them because of their helpfulness and gave them a large amount of traffic but it mysteriously did not turn into any revenue. When we removed the links from our site we were also mysteriously still getting click throughs and registrations several weeks after the links were removed!
iAffiliates- bad advertising practice - popping out cross promotion windows and affiliates not being rewarded (as documented here on AGD)
Brightshare - non-payment of affiliates and bad press as documented of AGD
Any Binary Options people - just don't like them, don't think it will convert with my traffic
Any scratch card people - they're too aggressive at trying to get you to advertise them. Don't think it's a sustainable business
BWin - arranged a meeting with these guys at a previous conference and visited their stand at my time but they didn't want anything to do with me and were busy. Told me to come back later, so I did, and they were too busy to talk to me again! They've had their chance from me.
888 - don't like their affiliate system at all. It's not transparent enough, as documented here on AFG.
Europartners - documented AFG issues
I guess all advertisers should be treated with some level of healthy caution. You should check out any history on the forums like AFG before working with them. The size of their stand or the apparent helpfulness of their employees and promises made at conferences does not necessarily equate to a good advertiser in my experience.