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Originally Posted by Greg B
I had an affiliate program years ago. It was under the old AC Pay option which worked wonders. It was easy, my webmasters made money, just wonderful til AC Pay pulled the rug out on us all.
So I tossed away the affiliate idea for a while and then last year started to explore it again. However, having to deal with illnesses I had to back off for a while. Now that health is tops and I have more time at the studio I decided to start it up again. Just toons, comics, animation and how-to classes. With the new video options it makes things easier for me to record myself drawing and putting it on the site instead of my old way of doing it live.
So I asked some webmasters should I do an affiliate program and suddenly things went silent on the boards, however, behind the scenes I ended up having a couple dozen companies ask me off the boards to do content for their sites' affiliate programs.
Got some surprising inside information to the toon affiliate market as guys were biting each other in the back on it! Here I was one of the first on the web doing toons and now these young whippersnappers are barrelling in and trying to undermine one another.
We made more money when guys teamed up. Now guys are trying to dominate a market and it makes no sense as the customer base is huge and continues to grow.
Just goes to show ya!
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I started my first affiliate programme last year. It certainly more than pays the rent. I don't pay a lot of attention to it apart from kinda seeing what the bottom line is once in awhile and it is worth the minimal effort it takes. But then again I am a mom and pop operation so it is small.