It is beginning to frustrate me waiting to be approved (or denied) on merchants affiliate programmes. With the many projects I am working on, I make daily applications to different merchants for different things, this evening I have gone through my four main networks, Trade Doubler, Affiliate Window, Affiliate Future and Buy.at and reviewed how many pending applications I have.
As I look down the long list I note that many of those applications date back months. When I am trying to build a business, I need to know either way if those merchants are going to accept that project as something that they want to work with.
I find it strange in the current financial climate that there seems to be a distinct lack of effort on the merchants behalf to push their programmes and get them rolling, after all marketing and putting your products and services out there at the fore is the only way to survive a tough market. Indeed if you have people offering to do that marketing for you perhaps a little more effort from the merchants side would not come a miss.
All I am asking for is clarity, if the site or project I am working on does not suit what the merchant has in mind simply deny the application and let the project move on rather than stalling it due to lack of effort.
Rant over!
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Warrick Lambert says:
December 3, 2008 at 5:43 pm (UTC 1)
Hi,
If you have any outstanding applications with buy.at then please drop me an email and I’ll be happy to take a look at them for you.
Cheers
Warrick
Digitalquill says:
December 5, 2008 at 10:34 am (UTC 1)
To be fair on Buy.at I only have 1 pending.
Cheers
Matt
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January 9, 2009 at 7:24 pm (UTC 1)
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