Is it just me, or are affiliate programs hard to get hold of?

[XXXWriterDude]

Why is it that affiliate programs never make it easy for you to get in touch with them?

When you click on their CONTACT US links on their sites, you either get sent to an online email form or linked to send email to the nefarious webmaster@ address -- and never get a response. Whatever happened to phone numbers and/or ICQ I.D.s? Sheesh!

Trying to get in touch with webmasters has become increasingly difficult, especially when I'm trying to get in touch with them to review their sites or do press on them. What's up with that???

[Squirt]

Good points.

I think the shear volume of spam paysites get now is overwhelming... even when you have spamfilters and spamarrest.

It's so easy now for legit emails to be thrown out.

Then again some people just don't do good business and if they aren't capable of basic communication then perhaps they don't deserve your attention?

[Wowmediacash]

From same experience - its amazing how quickly you DO get a reply when you post on a forum board etc ! eg: "Does anyone know how i can get hold of " " from " " etc

[Jasun]

our "Contact" email goes directly to my email address.

And when someone sends me an email, my reply contains a 1-800 number for them to contact me.

So there.

:thumbsup: :jasun:

[XXXWriterDude]

our "Contact" email goes directly to my email address.

And when someone sends me an email, my reply contains a 1-800 number for them to contact me.

So there.

:thumbsup: :jasun:

Well, I didn't say ALL affiliate programs!

[IntenseCash.com]

It's really bad but true. Alot of programs are hard to get a hold of. Bad support is a huge pet peeve of mine so I always try to provide excellent support. That is probably why I check my email every 5 minutes day and night and have no life, .

Mark

[realtoughbear]

It's really bad but true. Alot of programs are hard to get a hold of. Bad support is a huge pet peeve of mine so I always try to provide excellent support. That is probably why I check my email every 5 minutes day and night and have no life, .

Mark

Hahahaha.

Everytime I check mine, I think of you.....

Congratulations, you had a signup at IntenseCash.com

The signup was for the site SwallowBoys
Through the biller NETBILLING
This sale was sent by via Program: Per Signup (exit consoles) [$30.00 per
Join]

[Madame0120]

Another reason why I try to do business w/ the folks we've met face to face at industry events.

Like right now ..

I need some speical sized graphics for the sites we have just added to the hub .. it's nice I have Lee's ICQ#.

:ninja: I'm lookin' for yoooooo

[basschick]

our best sponsor for 2003 and 2004 once took 3 months to answer an email we sent them, and frequently took a month to get back to us. since payments were by ccbill, we were happy to use them but getting content or login access or getting a question answered took major patience.

on the other hand, there are a number of programs who have never gotten back to us and one who wrote back to us last month on an email from - i kid you not - may 2005 *LOLOL*

the small programs sometimes take a long time, but some of the large programs just don't bother to answer.

[jeffmaleflixxx]

Hey there. I never leave my desk!!! you can email or call directly.

My phone is 416-703-8186 x 11242.

I don't mind giving it out. After all I'm in the business of always getting more affiliates on board!

Cheers,

PS if you can't get me you can always drop Brent or Mary a line

Brent@sureflix.com
Mary@sureflix.com

[Squirt]

No response :turtle:

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Hey there. I never leave my desk!!! you can email or call directly.

My phone is 416-703-8186 x 11242.

I don't mind giving it out. After all I'm in the business of always getting more affiliates on board!

Cheers,

PS if you can't get me you can always drop Brent or Mary a line

Brent@sureflix.com
Mary@sureflix.com

[Paco]

Yes, SOME make it real hard to contact them, while many, like us, do not.

The EXACT times that I can be reached are clearly posted on our Contact link, as is my two e-mail addresses and our phone number.

We also post our time zone (MST) - not all are on the same clock or TZ.

To be fair, it seems many webmasters and sponsors share the same problem with communication:
Four flipping days ago I sent a reply, to a WM, with a request for his webmaster ID (WID) & password, so I could perform the profile updates, which he requested.
I was met with no reply.
Three day ago, I sent out a second.
Two days ago, I sent out a third.
Today, I will be sending out my last attempt! After it is no longer my concern!

Why is it people in our industry have such a hard time checking their freaking mail? It is part of the game, no?
And I really hate that lazy excuse "spam", because that is literally pure :bullcrap: !
If you've not learned how to deal with spam yet, you need start learning as it is not that hard, and it does not require money!
P.S. I receive more or less all mail (I'm root), for all companies (under our corp), with no wah wahs!

[basschick]

while i do my best to get back to everyone within hours, i receive more than 1200 spam emails a day, and lots of affiliates send emails with subjects that look exactly like spam like "important" or "must read".

it would be SO helpful if affiliates could send emails using subjects like "Muscle Bucks Affiliate" or "Affiliate Question".

[Lee]

while i do my best to get back to everyone within hours, i receive more than 1200 spam emails a day, and lots of affiliates send emails with subjects that look exactly like spam like "important" or "must read".

it would be SO helpful if affiliates could send emails using subjects like "Muscle Bucks Affiliate" or "Affiliate Question".

LOLOL I had one like that a few days ago.

The message subject was..

'Information you requested'

It was actually a request to get some more free content by the affiliate so, not only did i *not* request the information, the email subject with nothing to do with the contents of the email body LOL

Regards,

Lee

[Paco]

while i do my best to get back to everyone within hours, i receive more than 1200 spam emails a day, and lots of affiliates send emails with subjects that look exactly like spam like "important" or "must read".
it would be SO helpful if affiliates could send emails using subjects like "Muscle Bucks Affiliate" or "Affiliate Question".

said with the voice of the almighty DragonLady (Sybil): oh, I know!

I still do not understand why programs and webmaster have yet to learn how to write a proper e-mail (includes the subject line).
YOU are one of the only persons that I know who is just as religious or anal as I with this issue!

It only took me a few months to create my routine use of fixed or specific subject lines, as well as my displayed name (not paco@largecash..., or support@...).

Displayed name (from/to): Large Cash - Paco
Subject line: [Large Cash - Paco] Webmaster query; account 'XXXXX' (purpose)
or
[Emit Entertainment - Paco] Website subscriber; member ID 'XXXXX' (purpose)

I simply replace X's as well the "purpose".

I would like to commend you on your efforts (to making life easier) and I would like to award you with this partly chewed, half still in wrapper, Fruit Source bar (veggie).

P.S. I receive mail numbering in the thousands, daily. All sites. All companies. All webmasters. All hosts. All! All! All!