Quote Originally Posted by tigermom View Post
And on a more general note, not directed specifically at you Brian, I think that if a program owner chooses to work with affiliates, then show those affiliates some minimal respect and don't go on making such insulting generalizations in boards that your affiliates frequent... If you think they are such a pain, don't start an affiliation program. Market your own sites and let us do business with other programs instead.
I think that on countless occasions throughout this thread I've pointed out that there are affiliates out there who can be of immeasurable value and that certain partnerships can make or break sponsor/paysites and that my statements regarding burdensome affiliates don't apply to all affiliates.

I beef is with indiscriminate partnerships on both sides, but obviously from the sponsor perspective as that is what I do and what my business does.

From my very first post in this thread, before being accused of being elitist and cheap and all manner of other things...

Mind you, there are a lot of affiliates who work their asses off to promote sponsors, promote their sponsors in unique ways and do wonders in contributing the development of their own brand as well as the brands of their sponsors. There are also many affiliates who can choose to promote a new site and, in doing so, set that sponsor on a path to success (bring publicity to an up and coming yet relatively unknown site). There are many affilites - the major, high traffic ones - that literally can set a site on fire and turn it in to a success. There are also affiliates who are up and coming and may end up being the best affiliate a sponsor ever had, though not quite there yet.