I'm sure I could email Greg about this but maybe others are curious about the email update we just received. In particular I am talking about the following paragraph:
"Performance Review
Please be aware that at the end of August, we will be reviewing the performance of all our affiliates. Those affiliates that have not demonstrated the ability to generate a consistent minimum level of sales (6 sales per month) will be moved into our Referral Partner Program. If you are interested in remaining an active affiliate, but need assistance in improving your sales volume, please do not hesitate to contact me with your questions."
First of all, what is the "Referral Partner Program"? I couldn't find anything on their site expaining that. It does not sound promising.
I've been a little concerned about this program. Of all the programs I belong to, I get the most click throughs from this one. I'll share some of my stats. My site is relatively new and serves a very small niche market for my local area. The number of hits I get continues to rise but is still only about 250 per month. In late June, they announced A mini site that was available so I set one up on my site. The only thing I changed was adding my affiliate number. My click throughs to Revenue-Allies immediately decreased but I got traffic to the mini site. In July, I had 22 click throughs from banners and text links on my site and 120 hits to pages in the mini site. According to my stats at Revenue-Allies, I have no sales. I have no way of tracking how many people have responded to flyers I have distributed.
I may be wrong but I think (other than the sales stat) those are pretty impressive stats. Almost 50% of my visitors click through. This tells me one of two things. Either I am not credited with sales that should be mine or their advertising is not effective. Isn't it my job as an affiliate to get the customer to the merchant's site? Isn't it the merchants job to make the sale? If the customer does not like what he sees, is it fair to punish the affiliate?
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