What changes are you making due to economy?

[RawAlex]

Well, life in Canada hasn't been entirely hit by the whole US sky is falling shit, but being dependant on you guys for income, well, I'm there.

First a foremost, it's the "money in the bank, don't owe nobody nothing" theory that works well right now. Watching the stock markets closely looking perhaps for an entry point in the mid-term future that will let me ride the other side back up, really depends on who wins the US election, I suspect.

Online wise, it's all "clean up in aisle 6" stuff. Sad reality as an affiliate is that 95% of programs have either (a) gone to insanely bad conversions, (b) are fucking surfers over with insane cross sales, or (c) are owned by Deecash and are doing both. So some of it is picking and choosing stuff to promote, trying to move the target and find programs that aren't being assholes.

The hardest part at this point is keeping an eye on outgoing links to paysites and stuff. Plenty of programs playing games right now, changing affiliate codes, pulling galleries, changing gallery systems, changing to NATS (and not supporting their old codes or galleries) and so on. Other webmaster sites are disappearing at a speed not seen since the whole 2257 shit hit the fan a couple of years back, so I am trying to track down and kill links that go to parking pages and worse (malware, codec installs, etc) as expired domains get snapped up by assholes.

Oh yeah, trying to make sure that the companies I am doing buisness with aren't going to disappear overnight. When you start seeing customer service disappear, when support phone numbers are disconnected, well, you can tell the shit is approaching the fan.