Commission Junction – If You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkeys
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Well, I have just read this email which has literally just been received into my inbox from Commission Junction.
“Dear publisher, As one of our valued publishers we would like to find out how we can work better with you by asking you a few questions on various areas of your relationship with Commission Junction, from our services through to how we could improve our marketing and communications. The survey should only take you five minutes to complete, and as a thank you for taking part, you will have the opportunity to enter into our prize draw to win a brand new iPhone! Click here to complete the survey! he closing date is 31/01/08. Your participation is completely voluntary and all answers will be treated in the strictest of confidence. xyz Publisher Account Director
Commission Junction UK”
Well my survey feedback in response to that email, is this blog entry, so will I be entered for that draw?
For me the email smacks of desperation with no sincerity and is nothing more than a really hollow attempt or some lame marketing exercise to reach out to affiliates, which is a road well traveled, which will probably be followed up by some charm offensive exercise along the line. What Commission Junction habitually forget is that over the years they have in effect already received free consultancy from a number of affiliates, including myself, on what they need to do & where they have been going wrong. Whereby affiliates negative overview of this network is probably more in alignment than any other network … but yet again CJ try & do it on the cheap with some gimmicky giveaway which might have simply come from the closet as something a merchant may have given to them as freebie.
For CJ to come out of the closet they will have to go really far, so far out of the closet they may as well be in Narnia.
If You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkeys!!
In response to John’s blog … Commission Junction died a slow and painful death many years ago … there is no way this phoenix will rise from the ashes, so it may as well RIP now, as John’s in-blog image clearly represents. With Kirtsy weighing with CJ – You Are The Weakest Link – Goodbye!, who I can only sympathise with with my own similar experiences.
I should have blogged a lot more about past anxieties with the CJ network whom in my opinion seem to be under the delusion of being omnipotent with god like powers. For which I only have a couple of entries.
Are Commission Junction the School Playground Bully?
CJ Network Quality at Commission Junction Needs Taking Down A Peg or Two
Message to Merchants on Commission Junction:
I don’t believe your program is realising it’s full potential by solely being on the CJ network. The least you should maybe consider is examine the options of dual network.
These two affiliate polls may provide you with a useful indicator.
Poll 1: If Argos was on another network?
Poll 2 : Should programs be allowed to be on more than one network?
Message to Commission Junction:
Barring all the problems we have had with you in the past, please pay what we believe is owed which has been outstanding for a number of years & probably enough to put a nice deposit on a house.
There is a plethora of pleasant & amenable affiliates within the industry, but part of where you have been going wrong is not respecting them, you are dealing with adults many of whom have been around longer in this industry than many of your employees & also more experienced & knowledgable. Treat them like adults, then maybe one day that respect might be reciprocated.
Right, I am pausing for breath now & moving onto something less futile, cos I don’t think this horse is interested in drinking.
