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Get around the blogger problem by generating a referral token for each blogger to use in linking to your site, and show them the token/link in their account pag
by nikcub 16y ago
Get around the blogger problem by generating a referral token for each blogger to use in linking to your site, and show them the token/link in their account page.
Make the rules so that a blog post referral only requires a single click - that way you can verify that the blog post is from who they say they are
Once you have that infrastructure, you can use it as a more generalized referral system for people that want to tweet out a link to your product, etc. For eg. every tweet referral signup gets you a free month
There are hordes of freelancers out there who do nothing but affiliate marketing. For those types, you want to send them 30-50% of revenue. There are entire products to do this for you - cj.com et al. Their referrals made up over 50% of new users on a product I worked on previously.
- lsc 16y ago>Get around the blogger problem by generating a referral token for each blogger to use in linking to your site, and show them the token/link in their account page. this would solve the problem of people who don't produce clickthroughs getting paid, but it wouldn't solve the problem of looking scummy, and if you have a bunch of duplicated content all over the place, you look scummy, and the person who actually wrote the content is going to be cheesed. Reputation management (which is to say, wanting to not look scummy) is the primary reason why I don't have a referral system. Well, that and I'm not willing to put that much cash in to customer acquisition. But it's primarily about reputation; It's hard enough presenting a consistent message when you have two or three employees. Even if you only care about money, reputation is worth quite a lot. I'm sure there are ways to do affiliate marketing without looking scummy, but it's not obvious or easy.