Re: An instance where there’s basically a zero day cookie…
You bet I am going to have a field day with this. :grrr:
So from all the blathering going on, the affiliate now assumes that they are the one’s who make the sponsor money, not the hard earned attention to detail, to providing a quality of product, just the affiliate who may, or may not, use adwords, and other tactics to push their customer’s to buying the product.
So retail stores sure do make out like bandits don’t they? After all I go in, a salesmen tells me all about the new washing machine, and I go home think about it, come back 3 weeks later, buy it from someone else, and the poor salesmen who did the selling job, well he’s out the commission, the store gets its money. OH and not to mention that the ad on the television from the manufacture helped convince me 3 weeks later either, so maybe the store should send them the profits on the washing machine?
If a customer comes to my site, is intriqued about my sales pitch to Butch Dixon or anywhere else, and click thru, I get credit. If he just browses and comes back from his bookmark, I get credit. ON the other hand, he wasn’t thrilled by my sales pitch, and didn’t click thru, but, the way you all are talking, you want a cookie set, so that at anytime in that month, if he comes to Butch I’ll get credit. Sweet.
However, he drops by after a week, again isn’t impressed, but then he sees this guy walking down the street. It reminds him of a model at Butch, he gets a stiff one, so he types in Butch and buys a membership, but the way you all want it, I should get the credit for the sale, because a guy walking down the street hit the right buttons in the customer, to make him buy. Sweet.
As for Industry Standards. When was the convention held where all of us voted on those standards, or appointed a board to provide us with them? There wasn’t any I heard of, and yeah, maybe some mainstream or even adult do things one way. That may be ‘accepted practice’ but it isn’t a standard.
I have done retail sales for 40 odd years, and I find that only in this Internet, do people come up with this balderdash. An affiliate is an independent contractor, they do not get wages, they do not get benefits, they have no responsibility for the expenses, or management of a sponsor program. They simply opt in to sell the business product. Small or large, is irrelevant.
Here’s another example. I put my house up for sale, hire Joe Reality to sell it. He does all the ads, the open house stuff, and even puts up pictures on his web site. Lists it with MLS (multiple listings sales). He’s got 30 days to sell it. Harry wants a new house, goes to Bill Reality, who shows him the big listing book, and Harry like’s my house, comes back to Bill next week and buys it. Bill splits the money with Joe off the sale, however let’s say Harry has a good memory. He isn’t thrilled about the house from Bill’s sales pitch, and keeps looking.
Couple of weeks later, he’s driving by, sees the house I am selling, and well he decides to stop, take a closer look. The picture didn’t do the place justice, plus it didn’t include the nice garden. He walks in, see’s JOe’s sign, calls him, and buys the house. Bill didn’t make the sale, the house did, and Bill ain’t getting a slice of the pie honey.
Now you all have fun with that, I got to get to work, plus we’re having a bargeque, so gotta make sure the wife cleaned the grill, in between doing laundry and vacuum.
