Varon said:
Just say One "YES" here and I will fight for YOU..
Varon, I applaud your spunk and desire to improve. You always have insightful post and contribute meaningful ideas.
I understand your frustration.
I'm the king of dead ends. And i hate dead ends. Some call it learning by trail and error. But i hate going down the wrong road only to discover I'm on the wrong path and a great deal of time and money is lost, while i turn around and retrace to find the right way.
But life and business is like that. Most make excuses and eventually give up, but a few just keep on plugging away. I've had days / weeks where i didn't know what to do next, but eventually i always thought of something else to try. Sometimes you will discover good things along the way you would have never ever found without going down the wrong road, or taking a detour. So try to keep that in mind and enjoy the journey.
What you propose sounds good, but it takes a whole lot more volume than you might think to catch someones attention.
I've been working in sponsored search for 9 years. And I'm just evaluating / considering branching into parking as the two are closely related.
I know things I'm not at liberty to say. I could paint parking companies as questionable in their fairness. But parking companies also face some challenges that require drastic measure sometimes be taken. There are 2 sides.
They must have guidelines and cannot customize their business model for each and every person and circumstance. There are ALWAYS unwritten deals reserved for trusted, large volume folks. ALWAYS, and the bigger your volume the better deal and more support you can get. But it takes far more volume than most think.
If you do 30,000 clicks per day you can sometimes get someones attention, depending on your monthly revenue and who you are dealing with. Even at that volume, sometimes you are just another account.
Varon, when you talk about your frustration with .01 - .02 - .03 clicks, I marvel at the spread between prices on clicks in sponsored search. I see clicks at .02 sent to the same advertiser from my affiliates that other of my affiliates earn .72 for. And i have seen spreads on these accounts as broad as .02 to 4.22
Who's to blame? It's not so much who's to blame. All clicks get segmented into different quality buckets according to traffic quality. Here's the kicker - 95% of traffic quality is perception. There are plenty of filters that are suppose to authenicate quality. None are perfect nor foolproof to either party (the larger company or the small guy). But if someone gets the short stick, it's usually the little guy.
When you get to looking closely, most times the affiliate earning .02 is not doing something he was asked to do or is doing something he was asked not to do. Or of course he is just in a poor paying vertical or his geo source is low paying.
I might be the most honest guy you know and i might be committed to giving all my affiliates a fair shake. But if one is sending me 30,000 to 50,000 clicks a day and needs support / guidance and you are sending me 1000 to 3000 clicks per day, guess who I'll be talking to today.
In a perfect world, your 2000 clicks would receieve the same level of support as 50,000. But it aint no perfect world. I do think there are solutions. What works for me is not accepting affiliates under 1000 clicks per day and this allows me (or my right hand gal) to answer all emails every day.
I try to treat 1000 click affiliates with the same urgency as 50,000 ones. Most of the time i think i do, but i bet if i checked my email response times it would show faster response time to my few big affiliates. That's human nature i guess.
Varon, in every endeavor it's the guys who ask why / why not that improve the process. Where ever this thread may lead you, i wish you well
BTW
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