Commission Rates and Vouchers

[Admin]

As the credit crunch bites harder I am seeing that the companies offering affiliate schemes are reducing their commission rates to as little as 1% and recinding providing voucher codes.

Not good if, as I have, you just set up some voucher code sites.

It is much more relevant now to check what commission rate you will get when using an affiliate product feed, especially if you have the choice of multiple vendors.

I also found that some of my affiliate sites had invalid product feeds as the affiliate company (e.g. Empire Direct) had gone out of business.

All this is causing me spending more time managing my existing sites rather than building new ones.

Admin

 

[Skinner]

One of the major drop shippers I use in Canada for health suppliments, tried to increase costs (about 15%) and reduce my slice from 33% to 20%. I just went to another company, and send them a list, that said I sell at this, make this, can you match ? They snapped my hand off taking my radius bone with him, leaving my ulna sticking out.

I'm lucky at this point that I'm not as such dependant and affiliates are a 1:4 slice of income.

Maybe worth posting affiliates that we notice are cutting ?

 

[Paullas]

is dropshipping a good area now, as a few years back it wsa hard trying to find honest people.

 

[Skinner]

Depends what your drop shipping and what methods of tracking you have.

All my friends order off me, I also have a feedback system in place that I wrote that 60% of people complete. The shippers send me tracking codes, or whatever else, I forward it on.

Always good to meet drop shippers in person too

 

[scooter]

As the credit crunch bites harder I am seeing that the companies offering affiliate schemes are reducing their commission rates to as little as 1% and recinding providing voucher codes.

Strange. You would think as things get tougher they would actively seek to keep and procure more affiliates.

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[Skinner]

One of my sports nutrition sites has just generated over £151.22 GBP (profit) in 5 days since I altered my prices to reflect the new suppliers half price postage on medium orders and free on large, and sample (own brand) products they include in the first wave that have been delivered (2 weeks ago) are now being ordered too, so bonus money, as its higher comm on own brand.

I agree with scooter, if I could get my UK drop shippers to do special offers, I think they would make alot more money, as just dropping £5-10 off postage has changed from 1 order a day, to 3 per day in 2-3 weeks, and its climbing now.

 

[Admin]

Strange. You would think as things get tougher they would actively seek to keep and procure more affiliates.
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That's not what I am seeing, some have closed down their aff schemes altogether.

Maybe as discussed, we should track the best/worst payers per product sector.

 

[Dean]

If any one is after drop shipping, we can offer it for www.showplates.net / Welcome To Cool Plates, Number Plates and Show Plates.