Are You Throwing Away Your Affiliate Commissions?

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Everyone who promotes other people’s products for a commission should make sure they receive their affiliate payments right?

 

Well I almost lost out on my check once over the Christmas period and just a few days ago. I normally hold all affiliate checks during the holiday season so that I have no problems with mail delivery delays and any possibility of them getting lost in the post. However last Christmas 2005 my ClickBank check came through about a few days before the ‘last mail’ until the New Year. Now this was a nice surprise but the envelope was tampered with and the seal was unashamedly ripped open. My only guess is because the check was issued in US Dollars and not Pounds Sterling that whoever was so bold to do this couldn’t be bothered with the hassle of currency exchanges.

I’m adding another clause to holiday season mail and that it put on hold due to suspected fraud by temporary holiday season staff. I don’t know about you but I have had several incidences with mail being tampered with during these times. I’ve written to ClickBank about the possibility of ACH payments direct to a bank or at least to remove the ‘ClickBank’ from the envelope window to make it more inconspicuous.

 The last thing I want is for some crook to steal my hard earned affiliate checks.

 The second problem was due to my own absent mindedness - I did not update my payment details for one affiliate program. I was very fortunate to receive an email with the subject:

 "unable to process your affiliate payment"

 At first I thought it was Spam until I looked through the email from my server. After downloading to my email client I found that I had not updated my payment preferences. I was so glad to get everything updated and soon received a confirmation email with the subject:

 "Payment Notification: Affiliate ID…"

 Now that’s more like it!

So the moral of this story is double check your account details and keep a log of all of your active affiliate programs you promote. You will need to go through them if you change your address or banking and other payment info. Thankfully the vendor contacted me and all was resolved.

If you move to a new address do your really trust the new occupier at your old address forward your mail for you indefinitely?

Better to pay for redirection service for a few months and get all of your new data updated in the meantime.

Good old human error strikes again,

Here’s to a better memory,
Nancy