Affiliate Programs

[cpoalmighty]

A perfect affiliate system allows those wanna be business owners a chance to gain a steady pay check (might not be exorbitant but it should be enough) while allowing the company to have it's own army of sales recruiters with minimum effort. I noticed that people with highly successful websites in terms of content generally do better with the affiliate system since their visitors would normally take their word for it and sign up using the link

 

[Alex - A2 Hosting]

We have an affiliate program. Unfortunately, most clients do not make use of it. They could be getting free hosting and then some, but they don't use it. We'll send out notifications via email and its right on our homepage, but its just not used unfortunately.

You dont even need to have an active account with us to be an affiliate!

Well you are competing against big players affiliate programs (Ourselves, HostGator etc...). When you compare $75 - $135 per sale vs 15% maybe that could be a reason as to why not many are taking interest? Of course then again you get those loyal clients who are not looking for money and just refer clients over for the great service provided.

Our affiliate scheme is used by several of our clients, now we only give aff commission as credit to active clients.

We do this now as we did used to give commission as cash, but we had a client sign up for our cheapest shared plan and then sign up as an affiliate and then within 3 days he had signed up though his aff £150 a months worth of commission, which in 3 days we found strange, yes we had all these new clients, but something did not feel right, so we dug a bit deeper and found all the new accounts were using the same subnet and exchange. When we approached our client about this he stated he just did some door knocking to get clients.
We thn decided to make all aff commissions payable only as credits to clients accounts, as soon as we did this and informed clients of this new procedure all these new accounts started to send in termination notices, then the client sent in his termination request. So my feeling seemed correct in that all these accounts were in fact set up by the client in order to get cash commissions.

Most likely was affiliate fraud. Sadly its just something you have to deal with and look out for quite closely otherwise you could loose out quite a bit.

Good catch though, glad to see your affiliate program is working for you .

A perfect affiliate system allows those wanna be business owners a chance to gain a steady pay check (might not be exorbitant but it should be enough) while allowing the company to have it's own army of sales recruiters with minimum effort. I noticed that people with highly successful websites in terms of content generally do better with the affiliate system since their visitors would normally take their word for it and sign up using the link

We have some large affiliates such as OpenCart.com - we work for them and they work for us. Affiliate programs essentially can be a lifeline for these companies, especially low to none income ones or just bloggers.