Advertising Sales and Affiliate Programs

Age : 34 Joined : 08 Mar 2008 Posts : 1264

Super-Affiliates, How are you negotiating to get the best commissions from your parent companies? How do you know if you are being properly compensated? I've negotiated 2 raises with one parent company the past year, but heck, I don't know if there is still more room for them to give or not.
If you're in a business that has several parent cos., do you ever have them bid against one another for your business? Do you talk to your competitors to see what rates they are getting?

myself have gotten "no love" in this area, with sales increasing by more than 30% month after month I am now entering into an area which "I" would think companies take notice and do all they can to keep a super affiliate happy.

Funny think is that my parent company has come to me and brought to the table higher price structures but time and time again has failed to deliever. I have also had other related troubles which they have not even followed up with.

Bottom line for me is that this company has wanted to apprear as if they (affiliate manager) want to help me along but they have never delivered.

This started from day one when I emailed them saying "hello ... I am here.....can you help me". They replied with an email saying they were so happy and excited to recieve my email and will follow up with another email with lots of great information. This affiliate manager said she wanted to take her time....well I never got that email. Even worse she had me contact another "super affiliate" that was not my upline and had little reason to help me. She said this person would love to help me simply because he is a "great guy". LOL

I knew in my heart that this person would not help me unless $$ were to be had.

For me this is simply a let down, my business is grow at an increadible rate. I just got back from Mexico, started planing retirement with a $5000 deposit with E-Trade and have already made more money in the first two months of 2004 than I made during 2002 as a chef.

I can and will figure this affiliate stuff on my own but find it supprising when companies who have a vested intrest in seeing there affiliate do well seam to "drop the ball".