Direct or third party affiliate program

[choose3mobile]

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Hi,

We are a relatively new company that sells 3 mobiles and are currently successfully running our own affiliate program.

We are considering joining a third party program ( such as tradedoubler or affiliate future ).

You see if we keep doing this ourselves we feel we can continue to offer larger rewards and bonuses to our successfull affiliates but as we grow we realise that we may have to use one of these companies.

My question is to you as affiliates what do you prefer :

Dealing Direct with a company or using a 3rd party company

Thanks,

Craig

[eliteshops]

Hi Craig

Here at Eliteshops, we will only list sites that run affiliate schemes through third parties

The main reason for this is time and effort. ie if we were to check the commission of all the sites that ran their own affiliate scheme little time would be left for listing sites, adding bargains, adding vouchers etc

Hope this helps

alan
http://www.eliteshops.co.uk
http://www.design365.co.uk

[Sammy aff]

I always like to deal direct, it seems a lot of big companies in the US are going that way and I do work with a few, though more broadband/voip stuff than cell. I always avoid paypal and I know others do, try offering alternative payment methods.