Affiliate By Night

If You Want Something From Your Network, Ask

When you’re just starting out in this business, a lot of the success of your affiliate career can depend on your relationships with your affiliate networks and managers. They can tell you what campaigns are doing well, what niches are hot, and where (and how) other affiliates are seeing success. All great things to know. However, if you want or need something from your network and your manager, it’s important to remember to ask.

The fact is, no matter how much cash you’re making, affiliate networks need you. They know that there is the potential for you to make big money down the road if you’re just starting out and they also know that the majority of their offers are available on dozens of other networks out there. So they need to and want to treat you better than the competition.

For instance, say you like working with Azoogle and want to promote a certain offer, but you know that Convert2Media has the same offer for a payout of $5 more. Well, don’t just sit there and grumble that you’re not being paid fairly – ask your manager if they can match the c2m payout (and tell him you’ll switch your link if they can’t). You’d be surprised at how often it works.

Nate and I put this very principle to work last week. We were making pretty decent coin with a network and had two campaigns that were doing very well. However, our budgets are severely limited by credit card limits, so we don’t have a lot we can spend at any given time. However, we were pretty close to the network’s minimum requirements for weekly payouts anyway.

So I wrote a long and detailed email to my affiliate manager explaining the situation and what was currently holding us back from making serious income. I then promised to reinvest everything we make for the rest of the year to be able to pay down our credit card and get a increase on our limit so that we can be spending some serious money (and thus generating some serious money) after the new year. Lastly, I promised to continue to run each campaign with him after we are able to scale them up and make them HUGE.

Those things alone were enough to make him advocate for our cause with the network’s accounting department and low & behold we’re now on weekly payments and are able to spend more (since we don’t have to wait for net 30 payments before we’re paid next) each week, able to make more each week and will soon be making serious chedda. haha.

So the moral of the story is, if it’s higher payouts you’re looking for, help choosing a niche or an avenue of promotion, or even something as serious as an increase in payment frequency, if you can make your case wisely and give something back to the network, chances are they’ll throw you a bone. If they won’t, find a network who will and it will pay off in the end. Good luck!

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