My conversion rate was just fine, I was making them and me some good money and yet they terminated me because I asked a question about a reversal of a lead.

Just pure B.S., but what can affilates do besides move onto the next merchant…

As a merchant, your affiliates are representing your brand. You want to protect that brand. I would imagine that a fair bit of time is spent making sure affiliates are representing the brand correctly and fairly, within the terms of the programme, and not making false claims. This is probably especially so in the finance sector.

If you’ve got 300 little affiliates that need checking regularly to ensure they’re representing your brand / product correctly, then this is going to be time consuming task. If they’re generating next to no sales, then the cost of doing this may out-weigh the revenue generated by said affiliate. Logical solution - get rid of affiliate.

As said, I’m not an affiliate manager, just throwing some ideas around, so please don’t take offence

However, If I was an affiliate manager, then I hope I would have enough awareness of who the affiliates are that’re likely to drive the most sales for my product. In that respect, I would be head-hunting and actively trying to work with affiliates like Keiron, not giving them the boot!

Just had a look at your credit card site and spotted a type. In the drop down menu for ‘Compare Credit Cards’ it says banance transfers instead of balance! Just thought I would let you know!
All the best.

This “excess admin” excuse doesn’t convince me of anything other than poor admin skills. What would be interesting to know is whether or not this program is managed in house or was this decision taken by the network? I’d be surprised if somebody like Buy.at sent an email like this to you without first checking to see who’s on the recieving end. Either way, good luck with the new website which I’m sure will be a success.

Happy Christmas and good luck with the new site.