Amazon has announced its Associates program is cutting payouts in many categories. In some cases over a 50% cut!
@MJ DeMarco has mentioned affiliate programs breaks one of the Cardinal rules in business — lack of control. Which I agree with but no business model is perfect.
Though if you do affiliate marketing you should diversify with many different merchants and networks. Lastly, Amazon should always be the affiliate of last resort!
Their payouts stink and their reporting/tracking is terrible. Perhaps with this change, affiliates will finally switch to other networks or work directly with the merchants.
At these rates, you could argue ad banners would be a better option than doing Amazon Associates (not that recommend ad banners as a way to monetize).
@MJ DeMarco has mentioned affiliate programs breaks one of the Cardinal rules in business — lack of control. Which I agree with but no business model is perfect.
Though if you do affiliate marketing you should diversify with many different merchants and networks. Lastly, Amazon should always be the affiliate of last resort!
Their payouts stink and their reporting/tracking is terrible. Perhaps with this change, affiliates will finally switch to other networks or work directly with the merchants.
At these rates, you could argue ad banners would be a better option than doing Amazon Associates (not that recommend ad banners as a way to monetize).
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