I wanna know Your Opinion!
Posted by Riley Pool | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Networks, Ranting | Posted on April 1st, 2010
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Okay, say I was running mid 3-figures a day to one of the most reputable networks around. Not a huge amount of traffic, but decent figures and my monthly income for February at this network ended up being in the mid 4-figure range. I’m currently on monthly net 15 with this network because I hadn’t ran any revenue for a few months. But I do have a history with this network and they know I’m a legit affiliate pushing legitimate traffic.
I emailed my affiliate manager starting on the last day of February and asked if my check could be cut the first week of the month (instead of waiting til the 15th) because I wanted to pay the IRS as soon as possible. Now, I didn’t want to be put on weeklies, I just wanted a one-time exception.
She told me she couldn’t get me paid any earlier than the 15th because I was only running minimal traffic, about $50 daily, at the time I wanted to be paid.
Was I out of line asking for a one time payment earlier than usual? Should they have paid me when I asked? Vote below!
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Definitely should have been paid. When I stop doing volume with a network that I was on weeklies with, the first week I get back over $1k, I’m on weeklies.
There should be no exceptions to that rule if you ask me.
Take your traffic elsewhere if they are going to treat you like that.
Your cash flow can’t handle $5000 for 15 days? weak.
@David Is that how this post came off?
Ya they should have paid you. Thats why its tough sometimes dealing with a person low on the food chain.
@Riley, no it came off that you don’t have $5gs to pay your taxes…even weaker.
@Matt Haha, that wasn’t the case. I just have an ever increasing floor I don’t like to see my bank account go below.
This makes me look bad. Oh well, if it were the truth, I’d be concerned, but I’m not too worried about it.
Man you’re Riley Pool. They should just know what’s up and make it happen.
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Riley, all you gotta do is continue to work with RevenueAds and this won’t happen. Lol
I voted yes because you did and are still running decent traffic while getting the leads, but they still don’t give a fuck about you it seems. In the event that you may have been new to the network then I think the company needs to do whatever is in the best interest to somehow secure things until you prove traffic epeen.
I think exceptions can be made. Hell they never know if them paying you sooner could had sparked yourself to run more leads through their network.
They’re just a bureaucratic network, and your AM obviously could care less.
If you’ve shown that you can drive quality traffic and you’ve been consistent with it I do not see why it would be an issue. If something like this happens at PeerFly we manage it on a case-by-case basis, but in your case it sounds like you would have gotten your payment the next day