Disappointed in EWA's AMs

mGrunin said:
Here is my big rant during ASE:

So I walk up to a table setup by the network W9. The woman by the name of Megan asks my friend and I what we do. I go on to tell her that I run dating direct with adv, have my own biz opp and some other shit I don't want to get into in this post. What was her response to all that?

She ends up telling me that they are a CPA network, and that it stands for Cost Per Action. Which means that I will be getting paid for when the visitor completes something on the offer page.

Now while my friend and I are literally fucking holding back laughter, he asks for payment terms. She says that they pay NET 15, which means that at the end of each month, we will need to wait 15 days afterwards to have our check mailed to us.

She literally was fucking giving us definition of these terms after I made it clear in the beginning that I was experienced and my friend mentioned a bunch of shit he runs.

Second. I need to call out of the folks at seccosquared. I'm not going to name the woman that approached but during the conversation payment terms strike up again. Without hesitation she tells us they offer very fast Net 15 payments. When I laughed and at the same time told her that I don't remember the last time I haven't been paid weekly, she goes on to say that any networks that pay weekly end up being shady. That at the end of the day they'll close doors one day and not pay you, that it's best to stay away from all weekly networks.

Jaw drop.
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Haha. What a goof. Sounds like she couldn't interpret credibility based on what you said cuz she like 95% of AMs don't understand anything outside of their little box. This is where networks like C2M and EWA tend to shine.

Not her fault though..typically networks grab commerce/business students from the local university, give them an intro to the world of IM, walk them through their platform and trust them to learn from there. Most end up being babysitters, and teach what little they know to the newbs.
 


Victor @EWA has always been on point for me, going above and beyond IMO. I did, however, how to request a new AM as the first one I got wasn't a great fit.
 
Just saying, I worked with many non-US networks and weekly and even daily payments is not something unusual at all. Moreover bi-weekly (yep, not NET-15!!! and obviously not NET-30) is very uncommon.

Making NET-15 unique selling point is a LOL, want to pointed that out once again.
 
mGrunin said:
Here is my big rant during ASE:

So I walk up to a table setup by the network W9. The woman by the name of Megan asks my friend and I what we do. I go on to tell her that I run dating direct with adv, have my own biz opp and some other shit I don't want to get into in this post. What was her response to all that?

She ends up telling me that they are a CPA network, and that it stands for Cost Per Action. Which means that I will be getting paid for when the visitor completes something on the offer page.

Now while my friend and I are literally fucking holding back laughter, he asks for payment terms. She says that they pay NET 15, which means that at the end of each month, we will need to wait 15 days afterwards to have our check mailed to us.

She literally was fucking giving us definition of these terms after I made it clear in the beginning that I was experienced and my friend mentioned a bunch of shit he runs.

Second. I need to call out of the folks at seccosquared. I'm not going to name the woman that approached but during the conversation payment terms strike up again. Without hesitation she tells us they offer very fast Net 15 payments. When I laughed and at the same time told her that I don't remember the last time I haven't been paid weekly, she goes on to say that any networks that pay weekly end up being shady. That at the end of the day they'll close doors one day and not pay you, that it's best to stay away from all weekly networks.

Jaw drop.
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Lmao that's just awesome. I bet the network with a booth next to them got mad business all day. Anything they could have said would have sounded amazing after hearing that.
 
blillard said:
How do you think they became AM's? They dont just wake and say I want to be an am for an ad network. They had to display that they can actually do affiliate cpa marketing before they ever got job. I'm highly sure that no good network would risk hiring AM's that can't help out their affiliates. Now I feel you on some point that some AM's are just lazy and offer no help but that does not mean they know nothing about affiliate marketing.
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silverace said:
LOL at Justin Dupre's serious comment in the blogpost
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hahahahahahahahaha that comment was classic.


And EWA's AM are some of the best in the business and bottom line.....

If you are disappointed in your AM, I can guarantee they are disappointed in your volume. Any network.
 
To those taking the standard thought about "well, if they knew their shit they would just be banking it as affiliates on their own and not working FOR THE MAN" I invite you to take a step back and think of it in terms of risk tolerance (which I hope you are all well schooled in given this business).

Someone can work for someone else at a proven business and have something resembling job security, health insurance, a steady salary, etc. Or they can risk it all, pay through the roof for individual/small group health insurance, business taxes, and have to figure out all the other shit that comes with setting up and successfully running a business. Oh, and there's no guarantee that it will succeed. In fact, odds are it will fail in the first year and they will be back in the bread line.

It all comes down to the risk. Some people are willing to put it on the line, others are not, and some are diligently working towards it while balancing the responsibilities of their lives (family, mortgate, loans, etc.) through their day job.

So yeah, there are definitely some retards, but there's no reason to knock the entire profession of affiliate managers--there are some very good ones and they shouldn't be judged for their decision to be on the AM side.

Alright, now that I feel like an old man for that crotchety line, I'll just say that I swear to god, if Google gives me one more fucking rep that is less than a year out of school, I'm going to bitch slap someone. Went from having reps with 2-4 years experience to several "vertical" reps that were LITERALLY less than one year out of school (thank you LinkedIn).
 
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