Affiliate Manager Logic Remastered

I saw a great music tutorial website the other day in a magazine. It had everything that I would of liked in a music tutorial and I would have been proud to represent it.

Now the eagle eyed people out there will notice the word would.

Now this company is Internet based and offers the tutorials through the post. Which I think is a good idea (how would you read an ebook on the computer about a computer software that you want to use?). More of that in the next post.

Now here is where the failure starts to kick in.

1. You have to email them if you want to become an affiliate (no % commission, no reasons why to join...the list goes on).

2. The biggy here for me. I emailed them, and then I asked to join. The answer?

You probably won't believe me on this and while I am writing this I still didn't get it. But here goes:

They only offer affiliate status to people who have a bricks and mortar store!!

So I am thinking "how on earth have these people survived?" also I asked myself what if Amazon applied to them? Would the same stupid logic apply?

So anyone who makes decisions like this, please do one thing:

1. Check out the web site to make sure that the person is a good bet, but please don't disallow anyone who is on the internet only not to sell your stuff.

They were nearly there. But some person in their marketing department has said...we can't trust those websites, it is someone at home in their bedroom selling....sellling I ask you...what will be next? We want to be prestigious, we want only shops to have our products because no one will want to search for anything else.

So what did I do?

I found a competitor who is online, has a similar class of product (my reputation is at stake so I don't want any old product), and they are willing to help websites promote their products.

In one months time I sold $145 of their products and I am proud to recommend the site.