I got an email from CPA Storm today showing that the majority of their diet offers were coming down at close of business today.
If you are a registered affiliate, you should have received that notification. If you just signed up today, you might not have gotten it...so just a heads up.
It could be the fact that the idiots who manage the South Beach and other programs left CJ for Linkshare. Linkshare has a term in its merchant agreement that a company's offers may not run in any other network, with the only exception being if the offer in another network is actually running through Linkshare in the end (like Netflix). Linkshare might have flexed it's contractual muscle in this case.Oh yeah? Hmm that sucks copeac are taking all theirs down as well. What's going on with these things? Guess I'll try linkshare
It all depends on the audience. I find that the online sites such as South Beach Online, Ediets, and Diet.com appeal to a different audience than the diet pill / body building markets, and each converts differently in different markets.I do some work with diet/nutrition niches and will offer accompanying products (i.e. colon cleanse, vits, protein, etc), rather than sticking with the same over-hyped stuff like South Beach Diet and a few others. (note: I do use some offers which promote this product, buy VERY sparingly).
Just a suggestion.
AMWSO are the guys that manage a number of that family of diet offers (South Beach, Sonoma, etc) if you're interested in finding out about why things changed. They're basically a group of consultants who are contracted by advertisers to handle their affiliate marketing programs. They're good guys and pretty sensible in how they handle stuff.It could be the fact that the idiots who manage the South Beach and other programs left CJ for Linkshare. Linkshare has a term in its merchant agreement that a company's offers may not run in any other network, with the only exception being if the offer in another network is actually running through Linkshare in the end (like Netflix). Linkshare might have flexed it's contractual muscle in this case.
Besides that condition, Linkshare has higher network access fees and takes a larger percent of commission than CJ, so I'd see no reason to ever leave CJ as a merchant and move to Linkshare.
They may be sensible normally, but that doesn't really explain why they left CJ before having their programs fully up at Linkshare, resulting in a week or so of their diet affiliate programs not appearing in Linkshare, yet deactivated in CJ. Good sensible planning, eh?AMWSO are the guys that manage a number of that family of diet offers (South Beach, Sonoma, etc) if you're interested in finding out about why things changed. They're basically a group of consultants who are contracted by advertisers to handle their affiliate marketing programs. They're good guys and pretty sensible in how they handle stuff.
I posted the contact info concerning specific offers you were discussing so that you could quelch your thirst for knowledge and get first hand information about the topic that you were passing uninformed judgment on from the people involved. If you want to continue to toss spitballs instead of doing that, it's your prerogative (it is the national past time of the internet, after all). Your opinion on this matter is unlikely to affect mine. Cheers!They may be sensible normally, but that doesn't really explain why they left CJ before having their programs fully up at Linkshare, resulting in a week or so of their diet affiliate programs not appearing in Linkshare, yet deactivated in CJ. Good sensible planning, eh?
I wasn't passing any uninformed judgment - I'm someone who was affected by their asinine, botched switch of networks. I'm perfectly aware of the guys who manage the program. It didn't help that they initially declined my LinkShare application to the program that I promoted, either. I no longer promote them, as I've found a great substitute.I posted the contact info concerning specific offers you were discussing so that you could quelch your thirst for knowledge and get first hand information about the topic that you were passing uninformed judgment on from the people involved. If you want to continue to toss spitballs instead of doing that, it's your prerogative (it is the national past time of the internet, after all). Your opinion on this matter is unlikely to affect mine. Cheers!
It all depends on the audience. I find that the online sites such as South Beach Online, Ediets, and Diet.com appeal to a different audience than the diet pill / body building markets, and each converts differently in different markets.