Sure Mike, it can work both ways. But I think for a new casino affiliate it is important to get a nice shot in the arm early on for marketing budgets and what not. You also have to consider that a large majority of these players already have an account at one of their casinos, so while your searching for one of those players who do not have an account with any of their brands yet, your making other affiliates money when you can be building instant revenue by working with other programs. All of those
conversions you are not getting paid on would be a profit center for you elsewhere. Sure, if your an old timer that was with them early on, then you have the nuts with this program. For newer affiliates to the casino industry, I would make another choice on who to promote. Thats just me though, if you have a different agenda and want to wait a year to start making any decent money with them, by all means get into bed with them.
All I can say is I put them up for a few months when I first got in the biz, and it didn't take me long to start popping a few K a month at other programs, and I didn't find out until after the fact why I hadn't earned a penny yet at referback despite sending them a comparable amount of traffic as the programs where I was popping a few K a month. If I had known this when I started I would not have wasted all that traffic sending visitors to a site that I had no shot at making any money with because the majority of them already belonged to another affiliate, despite me closing the sale. I am not trying to throw them under the bus or anything, they are a good program. They just don't fit into my plans and I doubt many newer casino affiliates will be hip to this way of doing things.
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Originally Posted by mikebrad
So, you are a glass is half-empy kind of person. To me, this can work both ways.
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