Affiliate Marketing - Merchants Don’t Care About You
I don’t know if it’s a generality, but I have the feeling that when you do the promotion work for a merchant, trying your best t increase their sales, you should get some consideration.
Some merchants know that from a long time, and some seem to don’t care about you and. You see, I currently have a nice money-maker page that has just generated more than $1,000 in a week. This is a great achievement and I am very happy with that. The best part is I didn’t use any advertising method, so it’s pure profit, no cost.
But I’m quite frustrated with the lack of communication from the merchant. I don’t mean I want to receive congratulations, I know some are earning much more in a day. So here is the story.
The page I am talking about promotes only one product, and sometimes I receive some potential customers few questions. I always do my best to keep them happy and it seems one has been very happy with the product and, sent me an email asking to buy 50 items.
Yes, 50 ! I receive a $20 commission on the product so it could be a $1,000 more in my pocket. So what’s wrong you ask ? The customer wants a discount for such a high order and I understand that, this is perfectly normal.
Above all, it’s a win-win-win situation, for the customer who gets a discount, for the seller who makes a huge sale and for me who get the commission. Also, this big order could be renewed by the customer, so the merchant has everything to gain.
Of course, I’m an affiliate, I don’t set prices, so I emailed the merchant to know if they could make a special deal just this time. I submitted this request through the affiliate network members area 2 days ago : no answer. So I did it again today, directly from the merchant sales page, and I’m still waiting.
You see, I can understand they need some time to see how big the discount they could make, and build a special link or something. But, I am waiting an answer, and the customer too. They could just send a message, saying they well received my request and will contact me soon. They didn’t.
To merchants : if you read this, and if you know sometimes you don’t give so much important to your affiliates, please check your stats and learn how much you could be losing without affiliates. Of course, you are running a serious business, and so are lot of affiliates.
I can’t understand why some people want so much a bad reputation…
