LOL

Me thinks Ben showed in his last post which side he's leaning towards....

Love ya Ben!

No seriously, I want to ensure first of all that anytime an account is canceled, for any reason, whether by them or by us, they are paid up to date on the final check.

My feelings are and have always been, if a webmaster is promoting us and sending traffic, he's promoting us and whether he's making any sales or not should not matter.

I will often contact the affiliate to try and see if I can help them to better promote Badpuppy and even give them suggestions on how they can increase traffic to their sites, which will in effect mean more traffic to Badpuppy.

Not only is it true that this webmaster may have other sites, or future sites that will increase that traffic, but I also look at it as he or she assisting in the continued branding process. The banners are being seen far more than they are being clicked on, adding to the branding and name recognition process.

A perfect example is when in Vegas this last January I had a meeting with an affiliate that at the time was sending us not so much traffic and maybe had a sale or two since being an affiliate. When we met I found out that he owned over 100 websites and most of them TGP sites and literally had direct access to send upwards of 30,000 or more click throughs a day! We are now working closely with that webmaster! So a webmaster today may send 20 visitors a day to you and next week it could be 20,000.

Now, where I do agree with Ben is that if sales stop completely for a period of time and I contact the webmaster and he's not promoting us anymore, sending no traffic and still collecting rebills and has no plans to resume promotions, then I would let him or her know that this will result in termination of their account and they'd be paid what is owed as of that termination date.

Summary, I believe that if an account is sending traffic, whether sales or not, they are still promoting us and their account should remain active. I believe there is still benefit from them having our banner on their site, even if only from a brand name recognition standpoint.

Their promotions to me are worth what little bit of space they take up in our database.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

We would like to hear your story too, so keep the responses coming!