Affiliates with integrity

[aksana]

Originally Posted by USA2112

For new players who want to gamble online it is best to visit many websites before getting to involved with the gambling and learn before they play. And yes it would be hard to find out information on any affiliate personally but their website does says alot.

I agree, and it's the same for all new affiliates who want to start business in online gambling: before to sign up at affiliate programs it's important to investigate online gambling market, it's important to know which affiliate programs and casinos are rogue and which are trusted. Now I'm currently working on one site where I will list all rogue and trusted affiliate programs with proofs. When I started my biz my main mistake was that I worked with wrong affiliate programs and as I see almost all new affiliates do this mistake.

[lots0]

Originally Posted by USA2112

When affiliates have little to say about casinos they advertise and provide links and no information on their offers 1) they are hiding information on the casino because they are uninformed themselves or 2) they have knowledge of the casinos background being rogued in hopes of drawing in a little cash from the uninformed player.

This is just not true.

There are a lot of reasons why some affiliate sites don't put up a lot of content about some of the casinos they promote. In my own case it is because I am very busy, I run a LOT of websites and to be honest I don't have time to promote every deal the casinos come up with. However, I am into making sure the casinos I deal with and send people to are honest.

Originally Posted by lojo

I would guess that 90% of players don't even know what an affiliate is and does.

I agree with logo, most players have no clue about affiliates or what affiliate they signed up under. For one thing, most casinos keep that info private. Most affiliate programs will not let the affiliate know who signs up under them.

99.9% of affiliates are not like Bryan here at CM, they don't have the connections in the industry to be able to solve problems for players, so if a player contacts them with a problem there is not much the average affiliate can do, other than contact his or her affiliate manager and hope for the best. Not usually a very good way to solve a players problems in my opinion and experience.

Good hell, unless the affiliate is giving the casinos 10,000+ impressions and referring a dozen or more depositing players a month, most of the affiliate programs will treat the affiliates far worse than they do the players. In my experience, most casino affiliate programs will not even answer the emails of an 'under preforming' affiliates. So really all most affiliates can do to help players is to try to promote honest casinos in the first place.

[BingoT]

Wow I do have to say out of all the places I deal with have helped the players with a fast reply.and resolved many issues they had with them.
Must be the over 10,000+ impressions
If the affiliate goes to the affiliate manager for the help they need and gets it taken care of touche to the affiliate.I have never ran into any type of hassle with them.
Oh I forgot one time Bingosuite owed me some money and that took four months for me to get.
This place is not the best & I don't promote them anymore.

[lots0]

I never have messed around with any Bingo programs, maybe I should have... sounds like Bingo has much nicer affiliate managers than most of the casinos I have dealt with.

[BingoT]

Like I said I only ran into one person that gave me the most Bull and lied all the way to the bank.
Some people here helped me with this person to pay me.But I don't like to name names but if someone here would go for it.
All in all I have to say I have ran into some great people to work with.
It's like many years ago when I did promote Party Bingo,Party Poker heavy they sent me lots & lots of Hats,Cards,T-shirts.and more.But them days are far over.I still have a heart for Party Bingo.

[SlotsWizard]

Originally Posted by lots0

In my experience, most casino affiliate programs will not even answer the emails of an 'under preforming' affiliate

Same here. And even if I/they aren't making any money, it's still very satisfying to drop them, based on the principle. When you aren't making any $$ you are the most liberated, because you have nothing to lose.

[aksana]

Originally Posted by lots0

In my experience, most casino affiliate programs will not even answer the emails of an 'under preforming' affiliates. So really all most affiliates can do to help players is to try to promote honest casinos in the first place.

If you really want to get reply from affiliate managers you will always get it. There are a lot of ways to contact affiliate managers, emails, forums, msn, phone, even facebook, linkedin and other networks.
I always receive answers from affiliate programs even if they don't want to reply to me they have to reply to me because they know that I'll make a lot of noise around them. I think it depends on affiliates.
But after several years of my online gambling experience I started working only with those affiliate programs who will always reply to my requests and will help me.

[lots0]

One of the ways I test affiliate programs is first thing after I sign up I send the affiliate manager an email asking for advice and asking about conversions...

If they answer in a polite and helpful way, they are on their way to being promoted by me. If they don't answer or are assholes I just don't promote them.

[aksana]

Originally Posted by lots0

One of the ways I test affiliate programs is first thing after I sign up I send the affiliate manager an email asking for advice and asking about conversions...

If they answer in a polite and helpful way, they are on their way to being promoted by me. If they don't answer or are assholes I just don't promote them.

Really good way Another way I test affiliate programs is after signing up there I'm waiting for a week or two and if after these weeks I don't receive any emails or newsletters I currently stopped working with them.

[SlotsWizard]

Originally Posted by aksana

Really good way Another way I test affiliate programs is after signing up there I'm waiting for a week or two and if after these weeks I don't receive any emails or newsletters I currently stopped working with them.

Really? I actually find the newsletters annoying because they rarely contain anything useful.