Thanks @happyvoter for your article. As an experienced affiliate marketer, I find interesting that @splinterlands does not have an effective referral program.
Affiliate theft is a major concern in the internet marketing community. We go out of our way to promote a product or service, and we expect our cut as agents for the seller. If such a program is not effective, then remove it. Otherwise, the seller will be using that program as an incentive and that could be construed as confusing and / or misleading advertising, or deliberately confusing and / or misleading advertising. Such behaviour is unlawful in most western countries.
Btw, referral programs work best at launch or soon after, so perhaps @splinterlands no longer needs to commit resources to new affiliators? My advice: make that decision now and move on, just honour your existing referral payouts.
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your feed-back. I agree with you that it can be misleading to have an affiliate programm that promises you 5% on all referral purchases but doesn't deliver when users purchase the same items on another website. I believe that it would be really worth to rethink the whole affiliate programm and deliver rather DEC tokens as an affiliate reward.
Yeah, that sounds like an awesome workable solution. I'm not yet a @splinterlands tribe member. Once they get their referral program re-energised and secured, I'd be keen to join.
Just remember that there are many ways to reward members. Perhaps you could earn different skins like on Borderlands, or maybe get a number - being the number of referrals you have - attached to your handle? If payouts are hindering the growth of the site, then consider these other reputation rewards.
Hi @ianballantine
Great comment.
I may not be right, but I always thought that ref programs can do well as long as one is reaching out to people, who never heard about it before.
As a user: would it matter to me if some software/website just launched or if they exist a year or so? not really. If I would find tool which Im interested and I can sign up with someones ref link, then I surely would.
ps. did you ever consider powering up a bit?
Yours, Piotr
Yep, older sites are OK to promote. The issue though is this: how to excite the viewers to such a state that they sign up? Splash pages are no longer effective, and squeeze pages are becoming less so. Even videos have now become mundane as way too much stuff gets videoed and uploaded onto social media. Virtual reality is still 1-2 years off being mainstreamed.
What do we do now then? Go back to basics: chatrooms. Get actively engaging in chat.
Think of SteemIt as being a partitioned chatroom, post your articles, leave a comment on someone else's post, and reply to all comments made on your posts and comments. You can then develop a marketing strategy for your articles that lead the viewers to where you want them to go. I'm still developing my strategy. If you're interested, check out some of the awesome guerilla marketing being applied by some of my fellow CTP tribe team mates.
As for powering up, yes I will do that. I need a smartphone to set up my crypto wallets so I can place all my accumulated crypto into one or two wallets, then I can get some Steem to power up. Work in progress, that one!
Dear @ianballantine
Thank you for your kind comment and sorry for replying so late.
guuerilla marketing? Im not sure what is it.
ps.
May I ask you for little favour? I'm not sure if I did ask you about it already or not (hope I'm not repeating myself).
Could you please check out also my recent post if you have few min and share your thoughts on questions related to concept of "introducing steem blockchain to businesses":
https://steemit.com/steemleo/@crypto.piotr/my-very-first-trip-to-switzerland-one-of-the-most-crypto-and-blockchain-friendly-place-on-the-planet-earth
Your feedback is always appreciated ;) And I will upvote most valuable comment with 100-200k SP coming from project.hope account.
Yours, Piotr
Hi Piotr, great to hear back from you! Sounds like Switzerland is an awesome place. I hope to get their myself some time. I have replied to your own post, so please review and let me know how else I may help your wonderful project, by replying to the comments I made on your own post.