rcjordan - 5:37 pm on Mar 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

Nice thread.

>At first I thought you were ridiculing affiliate programs and it's good to know now that you're actually fond of them.

No, definitely not ridiculing them, though I am a little perturbed by all the "in your face" marketing tactics that so many affiliates are trying. They are hurting the industry.

The underlying question is, I guess, "Can you still make money on the web?" I make the equivalent of a California salary (and spend all my time hanging out here), yet I'm small potatoes when compared to some of our big players here. There's definitely still money to be made, and you don't have to be hawking porn to do it.

>almost taste the beer and smell the cigarette smoke as you all bantered across the bar into the night

It was California... they had to go outside to smoke.

>the whole "faceless" affiliate ID bit has never been a part of the game plan.

You see, we all have different styles. I'm very much into having ZERO contact with the people that are sending me money... it's not because I'm into some shady programs well beyond the bounds of ethics, my merchants are travel-related. I prefer to keep a distance so that I can add or cut at my discretion. As far as I'm concerned everything I need to know about them and everything they need to know about me is on the sign-up form.