Sorry for the delay, I had the page open yesterday and didn’t get a chance to respond.
Tough to word my response without offending anyone. Im gonna start by saying that the
123 program encourages "Introducers" rather than "Affiliates". The main difference between the 2 is that an introducers job is to introduce business to the merchant/network by generating quality leads/enquiries using
SEO/PPC techniques. This is usually done by developing a specific standalone site. (They also need a lot of time, research, skill, luck, money, etc, etc...)
The above is a very difficult task and to my knowledge only about 30-50 of you on this forum are actually any good at it... (Another 50 of you have potential but are in the championship rather than premiership, no offence.)
Either way an introducer deserves the highest possible return on investment.
An affiliate is what "Affiliate Future" attracts. An affiliate is someone who signs up with a merchant of their choice, places a banner/button/text link/skyscraper etc into their existing web pages and sits back and waits for traffic in the hope that enough people "Click" the advert. Once the advert is clicked the user is faced with the merchants web site. If the merchants web site sells the product/service to the client then the "Affiliate" is paid a rewarding fee.
The above is an easy task and a network like AF claims to have some of the very best affiliates in UK.
Now my question to you having worked with you for some months and bearing in mind I place you in the premiership of introducers. Do you truly believe that affiliates should be paid the same as an introducer?
For what it's worth im playing devil’s advocate with you here. As I personally believe that we should pay more to affiliates and indeed this will definitely happen in the near future, however you should also remember that we have only just joined an affiliate network and until results are proven we can't pay the same fees as we do introducers.
There is also a number of other factors to take into account such as the other programs available and the network fees etc.
The long and short of it is there is no wool being pulled over anyone’s eyes. The program launched by 123 on the AF network is one of the best "Debt Help" programs on the network and in only 3 days has so far seen some very, very encouraging signs and if we achieve current estimated targets there will be no doubt an increased payout for performing affiliates.
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