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- No trackback in that other post. oh well.
- Janguru! Where are you taking me with that check?
- Man... talk about getting your hopes up... see something that looks like a check come in the mail and BAM... nada. Networks shouldn't be meanies like that :)
- After wading thru hundreds of make money blogs showing off their super affiliate checks, your post is a nice deviation from the cookie cutter posts I see so often in this area of media.
- Beautiful post, You are a great affiliate - or better supper affiliate- you seem a brave person to show a zero value check publicly.
JangroCast #4: Transparency
I also discuss the TwitterMeThi ...
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jimkukral 2 months ago with 1 point
Scott, I'm enjoying these podcasts. Your voice is so soothing compared to Sams. :) Forgot to mention how cool it was you're 100 times removed from John Adams.
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Nice outtro with Tribe Called Quest.
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Great information. This is especially useful for beginners like me :)
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Have you submitted your podcast to podcast directories?
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Great information, thank you very much! :)
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I agree with you to a point on the transparency. As you mentioned, we do provide referring URLs - and have come under fire a little bit for providing that. (from affiliates)
It becomes more important in the PPC arena as affiliates who utilize keywords don't want those merchants to know what they are doing. (I am typing as you are now bringing this up.... I guess I should have waited :) )
We are working on a solution (we think) will split the difference on this....
Good podcast, enjoyed listening. I agree with you that nobody is providing full transparency... but I would argue also that any network that truly provided 100% full transparancy as you had described it would suffer in this current marketplace due to the fact that both sides would have hesitations in using that platform.
Just to the level where we provide it - we have affiliates who have expressed concerns over the information that we provide to merchants ... and we have also had concerns come from merchants as to the amount of information that we send to affiliates. For example, they may not like that we post when their last tracked sale was (so that an affiliate can investigate possible tracking problems) ....
I may be wrong, but I think 100% transparency might be one of those things that people argue for and think is a good idea, right up until they realize what information they then have to give away.
