Affiliate Managers and Azoogle piss me off
Posted by Riley Pool | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Networks, Personal | Posted on 28-05-2009
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My affiliate manager at Azoogle really pisses me off. I contact them saying hey, I’m pushing volume with a certain offer with another network. Can you beat their payout? I only asked this because I had ran a decent amount of traffic their way with this same offer a couple months ago.
Her reply was show me your creatives, tell me how you’re promoting it, etc… I politely tell her to fuck off. I know this advertiser has their own in-house marketing team and that’s the last thing I want to do is show them my creatives. As you can guess I didn’t get my payout bump.
A week passes and a few thousand dollars later she emails me saying the advertiser wants to know the exact details of my campaign so I give her something a little similar but not even close to what I’m running because they want to make sure I’m promoting it legitimately. I felt like I had to do this considering its my best offer right now so I did what I did. Of course her replies were very prompt here.
Then an hour passes and I remember our past conversation where she asked for my campaign details in order for me to be given a substantial payout bump. So I remind her about getting that payout bump now that I’ve revealed my campaign details. Haven’t heard from that bitch since.
I fucking hate Azoogle. But if them bitches pay me, I’ll push traffic their way. Talk about a cut-fucking-throat industry.
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I can promise you Azoogle isn’t trying to steal your campaigns. They’re not like CPAEmpire that actively promote all their offers.
Also, don’t know if it is the case with you, but Azoogle, like a bunch of other networks, have lead gen campaigns where the advertiser requires the network to tell them how the affiliate is running it or they can’t do it. Then you have to pass a “quality check” on your leads before you can get more cap/pay bumps.
I had to do this on a few offers, it isn’t a big deal. I would talk with her about, I am sure you can straighten it all out. Azoogle is one of the few networks I would actually trust.
Brandon, I don’t feel that Azoogle is trying to steal my campaigns, I just HATE giving out my campaign information as I’m sure you are.
It also upset me that they were quick to respond about the quality check of the leads and quite lagging in my response to the payout bump they offered initially upon providing my campaign details.
I’ve talked some more with my AM at Azoogle and all is well, but still the way the conversation went irked me.