few days ago, friend of mine decided to buy a Fleshjack product, so I recommended him doing it through my affiliate link - so I could test if the FNcash affiliate program actually works. He created the perfect conditions - he deleted all the previous cookies, restarted his browser, clicked on my fleshjack affiliate link, made an order and paid.
Did this transaction appeared in my FNcash affiliate account? NO. I couldn’t think of a more perfect “customer buys a product through a link” situation then this.
Through all the years, I’ve never had any success with this program. What is your experience with FN Cash affiliate program?
I think I may have sold one, but I gave up on these guys. Didn’t they reboot their affiliate program requiring everyone sign up and change their links? And I seem to remember this happening more than once. Regardless, it was never a seller so I just walked away.
Yea they have changed thier program a few times needing link changes, and for the life of me I dont know which one is the right one to use anymore lol.
I’ve sent thousands of visitors over the years and never made a sale!
I never sold any either, and that’s with product posts, sidebar links and pics, etc etc … on over 30+ blogs. I didn’t bother to re-register when they kept changing the whole need to sign up again/get new links BS.
We’ve sold Fleshlight/Fleshjack products directly through an outlet for years and they’ve been good for us in the past, but we never tried the affiliate link option. Truth is they became too successful to be a valid product for affiliate promotion, or even for retail through a shop like the one we run. Everyone knows about the company, their products appear in new videos all the time and without even needing to make any deals to promote them (like I believe they did ten years ago).
Quite simply we’ve been removed from the food chain with this brand. Why would anyone need to go through any of us to get one when they all they need to do is Google it and find ten sites actually owned by the company? It’s not the kind of product you would usually buy on a whim, so promoting it as that generally doesn’t work.
Another problem we have on the retail side is that they’ll release something in the US, then MAYBE we’ll get it in the UK a year later. By that time everyone who really wanted the brand new product already has one or moved on to something else. It’s the same situation with Tenga. We promoted the crap out of a new product they released 8 months ago, expecting it to arrive in the UK within a couple of weeks, but it never came. We probably had 20-30 customers eagerly waiting for one. We might finally get them this summer, but by then it’s already too late and everyone has moved on to something else.
When the Fleshlight Turbo range was released in the US we tried something new, knowing that we have a better chance of competing if we can get a head start on the biggest competition when it comes to other products. We knew they were coming to the UK so we created the pages, talked about them, promoted the fact that they were arriving, got everyone excited about them… even with all that Amazon, eBay and Fleshlight themselves were the top ten results for them when they finally came to the UK, so the whole thing was a wasted effort. It might work on lesser known products and brands, but Fleshlight is just too big and Google already prefers to promote multinational corporations over local businesses, so we’re screwed either way.
If selling them from a sex toy shop is this hard I would say that making any money out of it as an affiliate would be basically impossible.
The owner of Fleshlight, Steve Shubin, is totally uninterested in the affiliates as they as i can imagine create only a small amount of revenue to the what i can imagine huge revenue is made each day by their own sites and wholesale.
Unfortunately this is true. It’s exactly what the dodgiest of adult studios do. Once they’ve got some brand recognition they drop all the bloggers who built it for them, screwing over affiliates. As we all know, in the adult entertainment world this always fails as affiliates then stop promoting them and their brand disappears from view, sales slump, then they come back begging for us to promote them again and get their name back out there. Case in point - FratMen.
I’m not sure the same will happen with Fleshlight/Fleshjack as they have that retail aspect the way companies like FratMen didn’t, but I think it’s fair to say that the company isn’t as big as it was, simply because far fewer people are promoting them and their products across the adult blogosphere.
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I’m not sure the same will happen with Fleshlight/Fleshjack as they have that retail aspect the way companies like FratMen didn’t, but I think it’s fair to say that the company isn’t as big as it was, simply because far fewer people are promoting them and their products across the adult blogosphere.[/QUOTE]
My data is years old - and if they still have half of the sales they used to have i would retire after a day of revenue… ah make it half a day of working with extended lunch break
Oh I agree, they’re still making a hell of a lot of money. But without the massive network of bloggers and affiliates promoting their new Fleshlight Go they have a much harder time selling them than they did the original product lines and the Fleshjack Boys when they came out. The truth is that while they make enough money a day to make the average affiliate here weep, they were probably making ten-times that on previous products.
I mean, how many here have seen any ads on any blogs for Fleshlight Flight, Fleshlight GO, or the new Turbo toys? The most I see these days are review posts, promoting the products for retailers like us at BlokeToys.
It seems to me is all they have to do is get Fleshjacks in the hands of producers who will happily use them in their videos. Bloggers will post about the scene regardless and Fleshjack gets lots of type-in traffic from people who really want one.
It seems to me that they have figured out a way to have their cake and eat it too. And they don’t have to deal with affiliates wondering where their $50 payout is.
