{"id":143,"date":"2007-04-06T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.80.208.152\/affiliateprogramadvice\/?p=143"},"modified":"2008-02-21T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T02:05:01","slug":"affiliate-network-a-story-for-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/06\/affiliate-network-a-story-for-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Network – A Story for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time their lived lots of Easter Affiliate Manager bunnies, they loved their jobs, hopping about the internet and distributing their baskets of goodies to all the affiliates. The affiliates liked speaking with their Easter affiliate manager bunnies as they were a rare breed, and it meant for them, they could understand the Easter Bunnies client\u2019s business model, which in turn enabled them to promote the product and or service. More importantly, the Easter Affiliate Manager bunny could warn affiliates about the perils they maybe getting into, the traps to avoid and so on. (Ok let me hear you say ahhhhhhhhhhhh!)<\/span>One day a naughty rogue Easter Affiliate Manager bunny did something that the Affiliate Network did not like. The Easter Affiliate Manager bunny, set about pulling all the contact details about the affiliates from the affiliate network in order to bring the affiliates in to their own warren. Soon there were quite a few naughty rogue Easter Affiliate Manger bunnies doing this across a few affiliate networks. (let me hear you say ohhhhhhhhhh)<\/p>\n

The affiliate networks were so cross that they decided to make it more difficult for Easter Affiliate Manager Bunnies and merchants to contact affiliates on an individual basis. Some removed the facility altogether. Communication was now nigh on impossible or a lengthy task, making scampering about distributing baskets of information goodies such a difficult process. The consequences were and are Easter Affiliate Manager Bunnies noses stopped twitching and bob tails stopped bobbing and all now have droopy ears. (Let me hear you say ahhhhhhhhhh!)<\/p>\n

So on behalf of all the Easter Affiliate Manager bunnies and merchants here is a little Easter message to those networks that don\u2019t facilitate one of the most fundamental aspects to running an affiliate program.<\/p>\n

Not all of us want to siphon your affiliate data, you have to trust us.
\nThe majority of us are trustworthy. We need to be able to contact individual affiliates quickly, especially if we spot that an affiliate\u2019s link is wrong or worse. We hear you re protecting your network, but stop an think about this\u2026 if you do get some rogue merchants or affiliate managers, they are actually doing more damage to themselves by taking affiliate data, short term gain maybe\/debatable\u2026 but word travels fast and they wont be trusted in the affiliate industry again.<\/p>\n

Please Please please, allow us to do our jobs effectively, I cant believe that in seven \/ eight years of UK Affiliate Marketing, this feature is still woefully inadequate or even absent in some affiliate networks.<\/p>\n

Happy Easter from an Easter Affiliate Manager Bunny<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time their lived lots of Easter Affiliate Manager bunnies, they loved their jobs, hopping about the internet and distributing their baskets of goodies to all the affiliates. The affiliates liked speaking with their Easter affiliate manager bunnies as they were a rare breed, and it meant for them, they could understand the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}