http://hourglass8.com/12-mistake-affiliates/ Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:38:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://hourglass8.com/12-mistake-affiliates/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Vanessa Reece Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:37:31 +0000 http://privatexxxstudio.net/?p=161#comment-190 kelly, I have something interesting to share with you in regards to this which may interest others. Many moons ago I joined an US affiliate and basically built a small site around their content. It was a half hearted effort if I'm honest as a few months later I focused my attention on other things. In time the domain and hosting expired and I never thought anymore about it. I didn't see any commissions at the time then years later, I kid you not, a check for $24 came through the post. I had to think back to where it came from and then I figured it was from the affiliate I'd set up years back. Every other month or so the checks carried on coming increasing by a dollar here and and a dollar there until they finally stopped just shy of $40. Not a great amount but it gave me a few lessons. Someone had obviously clicked through and joined the affiliate via me which gave me a small percentage of their sign up plus a % of anything they sold. The second thing it told me is if you're joining a US affiliate make sure it's not check based only because cashing US checks outside the US is an expensive business and you'll end up losing most if not all your commission that way. if they are only check based ask them if they can roll over your commission to a comfortable amount - so it's worth cashing. I only learned about this way after the fact hence why I never cashed my checks. :( V x kelly, I have something interesting to share with you in regards to this which may interest others.
Many moons ago I joined an US affiliate and basically built a small site around their content. It was a half hearted effort if I’m honest as a few months later I focused my attention on other things. In time the domain and hosting expired and I never thought anymore about it. I didn’t see any commissions at the time then years later, I kid you not, a check for $24 came through the post. I had to think back to where it came from and then I figured it was from the affiliate I’d set up years back. Every other month or so the checks carried on coming increasing by a dollar here and and a dollar there until they finally stopped just shy of $40. Not a great amount but it gave me a few lessons.
Someone had obviously clicked through and joined the affiliate via me which gave me a small percentage of their sign up plus a % of anything they sold.
The second thing it told me is if you’re joining a US affiliate make sure it’s not check based only because cashing US checks outside the US is an expensive business and you’ll end up losing most if not all your commission that way. if they are only check based ask them if they can roll over your commission to a comfortable amount – so it’s worth cashing. I only learned about this way after the fact hence why I never cashed my checks. V x

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