AllPosters/Art.com sent out an email recently informing their affiliates of a change in their program. I signed up for them when I started using Squidoo so I could have pictures for my lenses with the off chance that someone might buy a poster and I would earn commission.
I confess, I haven’t sold one, but I noticed that some customers did click through my links. I initially just wanted a place to find pics but planned on focusing on sales this year. Well, those plans have been squashed.
Basically, you have to sell a minimum amount per program year in order to earn what they term commission credits to be able to earn a payout. I’m sure there are people who don’t have to worry about this who do really well with sales each year. But I don’t want to have the poster pics disappearing from my lenses thereby making them suddenly incomplete because I haven’t earned the right amount of credits during their program period. As a business, they have a right to do this. But why would they? It seems they’re only hurting themselves.
I’ll be pulling all of my poster links from Squidoo. I had just started using text links other places and I’ve been using backlink sites to drive more traffic to my articles, so I probably could have made a few sales if I focused my effort on the right things. Ah well, I’m sure there are other businesses that will want potential customers sent to their sites.
