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Affiliate Marketers, Are Your Merchant Partners Stealing Your Income? ©2007 Leslie Truex
In the Jan/Feb edition of Revenue, a magazine for affiliate marketers, there is a troubling article by affiliate guru Rosalind Gardner about merchants hijacking their affiliates' traffic and stealing the commissions. The article focuses on how Zango and merchants that work with it are clipping affiliates' income with pop-ups that have Zango's tracking code instead of the referring affiliate's. Zango appears to work with large businesses that already receive lots of traffic; however, that doesn’t mean smaller merchants can't hijack their affiliates' income. There are three other ways you could be losing commission to an unscrupulous merchant.
1. Failure to pay - I have had two merchants in nine years of affiliate marketing not pay for income I earned. I suspect that these companies didn't have the money they needed to pay me or maybe they were outright stealing. In the end it doesn't matter. We entered into a deal in which I'd get paid for sending them referrals, but they failed to hold up their part of the agreement. Incidentally, one of these companies was a consumer protection site. Imagine being ripped off by a consumer protection agency!
2. Failure to track affiliate ID's through the website - When your referrals click on your link, you have an affiliate ID that indicates you are the person who sent the referral. Most venders use tracking codes and cookies to help keep track of affiliate referral ID's. However, some sites lose the tracking code if the referral clicks on other links within the site. One company I was researching for a possible affiliate relationship had a network of sites. The sites were niche sites focused on specific target groups, but the product was the same throughout the network. The affiliate site was a generic page that had the niche sites listed. If a referral clicked on one of the niche sites, the tracking code was lost so if they bought through the niche site, the affiliate wouldn't get paid, even though they were buying the same product they would have bought on the main page an affiliate sent them to. Needless to say, I didn't partner with this company.
3. Providing alternate payment options that don't track affiliate ID's. - My most recent adventure in affiliate rip-offs involved this type of situation. I joined an affiliate program that I expected to do well as the other similar programs I belonged to have had good results. But sales were far and few between. I was thinking it had to do with a poorly designed site that didn’t convert sales very well. But when I was tipped off by another affiliate that the order button didn't track referrals, I took a closer look. What I found was that the affiliate was offering an alternative payment method that didn't track affiliate codes. Further this alternate payment method was predominate payment choice. The order button was a big "buy now" button and underneath it there was an option to click a text link that said "or buy here from Clickbank". Now, I'm not sales genius, but I'm pretty certain people are more likely going to choose the button over the text, particularly since the text link makes it appear they would have to buy the product somewhere else.
What can you do to protect yourself?
First, research sites carefully before signing up. Ideally, pick a company that runs its program through a reputable network like Commission Junction or Linkshare which require that monies that will be paid to affiliates to be escrowed into an account, so you can be sure you'll get paid.
Second, test your links. When you sign up, click your link and see where it goes. Also read through the page. Does the "buy now" button track your ID? If you visit other pages on the site and then click the "buy now" button, does it still track your ID?
Third, track your programs. Check your exit logs and see where people are going when they leave your site. Or use a click tracking code to monitor the number of times the link is clicked. View your sales and determine if the number of sales seems reasonable for the number of clicks. If things don't look right, visit the site to determine why. Is it a poorly written sales page that doesn't convert well or is your tracking code being lost somehow?
What can be done when merchants cheat?
My approach is always to be professional and diplomatic. I make them aware of the situation and how harmful it is to the affiliate/merchant relationship. Hopefully I get an apology and the problem gets fixed. Unfortunately my experience is that nothing happens. The merchants I talked about in the beginning who own me money have never paid. The merchant who is clipping its affiliates of income with an alternative buy button hasn't change the link and hasn't responded to my last email.
My only recourse at this time (unless I want to file claim or hire collector) is to pull the programs from my sites. Some may see this action as petty on my part. If the programs are good, why not just keep them? I could do this. After all, I do have sites I refer to that don't have affiliate programs. However, I'm in business and so is the merchant. Why work with a merchant who doesn't honor its agreements when there are many other equally as good merchants who will?
More importantly, when a merchant clips its affiliates, its basically stealing, which puts into the question the character of the people who run the program. If a merchant will steal me, will it may also steal from the people I refer to it. So it's important to let merchants know that this behavior is not acceptable. And the best way I know how to make an impression is to stop sending it traffic and sales. If enough affiliates join in, merchants will have to make changes, or close up shop.
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7 Surefire Ways To Get Leads For Your Mlm Business
By Kevin NunleyAfter you join an MLM business, it's usually smooth sailing for a few days or weeks. You have plenty of leads--well, you have your family and friends--but those leads don't last forever. When you've exhausted your list of leads, what do you do?
The lifeblood of your business is leads. If you don't have interested prospects to email and call, then you don't have much of a business. So the question is, how do you get leads beyond your family and friends?
There are many network marketers out there who have more leads than they know what to do with. They get to the point where they don't have to look for leads at all--the leads come to them. How are they able to pull this off? Let me tell you, it's not with some simple conjuring trick. They use a variety of lead-pulling techniques that anyone can use.
Here are a few of the top lead-getting techniques used by network marketers:
1. Content - Put up a website that not only has information about your business opportunity and products, but also features content that people search for, such as articles, free tools, business and marketing tips, etc. Many of the people who end up in network marketing do so by accident. They didn't go searching for an opportunity; one just sort of fell into their lap while they were searching for useful information.
Just because people don't go searching for your opportunity doesn't mean they aren't interested. If they come to your site because they did a search for information on a certain topic, or free marketing tools, what does it matter? They are still at your site, where they will have to view information on your product or opportunities, along with what they were actually looking for.
2. Dangle the Carrot - Once you've drawn visitors to your site with free content, you have to get their information so you can follow up. You've already led them this far; you just need to dangle the carrot and lead them a little further. The carrot could be a free report on email marketing, an e-course designed to help them start their own business, or an e-book on how to build a website. Make sure it pertains to the content they came searching for. That way, since they wanted to see what your content was, they will also want whatever freebie you have to offer.
Here's the trick. They have to give you their contact info--at least their name and email address--in order to get the freebies. And as soon as you have that information, you have leads!
3. Create a Newsletter - The promise of helpful information sent directly to you on a regular basis is a tempting offer for most Internet users. So why not create your own? You don't even have to write all the content. You can ask other authors if you can use their articles, so you don't have to spend all your time on the newsletter.
But sure to include information about your products or opportunities in each issue, but don't display the ads too prominently. Otherwise subscribers will think your newsletter is just one big ad.
To get subscribers, use the methods above. Draw visitors to your site with free content and then offer the free newsletter. Use http://Topica.com, Yahoo Groups, or iSnare to send it out for free.
4. Buy Your Leads - One of the easiest ways to get leads is to buy a leads list. Of course, this is also one of the most expensive. But it works well if you have a good lead source. Ask other network marketers who use this method to point out the best sources for buying lists. Make sure the lists you're buying are of people who have truly expressed an interest in getting information. Otherwise, you'll be wasting your money because they will delete your message without bothering to read it. What's more, you could be accused of sending unsolicted email.
5. Offer an Email Course - You can turn yourself into an instant MLM expert, as well as promote your opportunity, simply by offering an email course via multiple autoresponders. If you don't feel comfortable writing your own course, find a good copywriter to do it for you. Make sure the course is not just a bunch of sales letters. They have to contain information your prospects really want. Pitch your products or opportunity briefly at the end of each course letter, or mention it occasionally in the body text. For the best no-cost autoresponder system I've ever seen, visit http://SendFree.com.
6. Talk About It - Never pass up an opportunity to talk about your business or products. I don't mean talking to people while you're standing in line at the grocery store; you don't want to annoy people. But there are plenty of other ways you can talk about your business. For instance, you could give a presentation on starting your own business to local groups or on talk radio. The subject of your business is bound to come up, but don't force it. Establish yourself as an expert by talking about business and marketing related subjects, and when people find out what you do, they'll automatically be interested. Save your MLM pitch for private conversations with participants or prospects who contact you later. You may also find many opportunities to talk about your business in chat rooms and on newsgroups. These are places where people who want to talk will, so throw the subject out there and see who responds.
7. Rank High - Use pay-per-click search engines to their maximum potential. Choose keywords that will get you ranked high so you can get people to your site. But don't just focus on keywords about your business. Use keywords that will draw the people who want to sign up for your newsletter or take advantage of the free content on your site. Let your newsletter and content do the selling.
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Website hosting and domain is paid through June 21, 2007. There will be no charges for transferring ownership. At the end of the hosting period, the winner can continue to host the site at SiteSell and pay the hosting and domain renewal of $299 or transfer the site to a new host (lower cost hosting is available). The winner can transfer the site to a new host at anytime before the renewal date at his/her own expense.
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