Comments on: Next: A Disappointing Day

By: Zak

Zak — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:37:01 +0000

It’s a real shame that there wasn’t 20-30 affiliates banging the drum – that would have really made Next sit up and take notice. Now, they’re probably thinking “what was all the fuss about”.

I agree with a few sentiments above – Apathy tends to rule the day unfortunately.It’s a real shame as I see this as an opportunity missed for affiliates to voice their opinion en masse.

By: Ash

Ash — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:32:37 +0000

Gadget pretty much summed up my feelings.

Frankly i’d rather spend my time promoting merchants who deserve my time and attention.

By: Jason Dale

Jason Dale — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:11:51 +0000

Was with a network and merchant who’d invited us out for the day on Friday, and them vs Next was a no contest, but tbh I had forgotten about this.

What I will say though is Next aren’t that important to me as an affiliate. I got involved in the a4u thread – and offered suggestions to them in that discussion and therefore don’t require another one – plus backed you Chris because of how you were treated at the time.

Whilst yes it’s disappointing only a few affiliates got involved in this conference call, in reality that was what was always going to happen.

Apathy? Possibly, but on the grand affiliate scale of things are Next that important to all affiliates – no (sorry Next people) – especially when compared to supporting a fellow affiliate who chose to speak out.

The merchant made mistakes imo, and they’re remedying them – great stuff, but personally I’d love them to just get on and “do it” – just like the other good merchants that manage AM day to day without the issues and discussions.

By: Kieron

Kieron — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:47:39 +0000

It’s always the case that people love to moan and gripe about what’s wrong with affiliate marketing but when the opportnity comes to put things right they just aren’t interested. Shows me that these people (not you Elaine) are just in it for a fight and aren’t really interested in advancing the interests of the affiliate community.

Nice one mate for taking part in the call.

By: fionah

fionah — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:18:12 +0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your input on Friday. I agree turn out was a little disapointing, none the less communication lines were opened and we came away with a lot of food for thought – and some great ideas on how to move the program forward for all involved.

I’ll issue the minutes as soon as I can and I’ve already started to put in place some of the ideas discussed.

Thanks again to all who took part and I hope to see a few of you at the event on the 25th

Onwards and upwards.

By: gadget

gadget — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:54:53 +0000

The lack of affiliates is probably due to the fact that so many have given up on Next and have simply moved on. Effort in has got to equal reward out.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:14:48 +0000

I took part in a similar teleconference with Next and affili.net on Friday – not quite sure why they had two separate teleconferences for each network but maybe they were expecting higher numbers. I think there were 3 affiliates taking part in the affili.net one.

I won’t comment on the content of the meeting until i-Level have published their minutes of both meetings as there may be things covered in one that weren’t covered in the other – but as a whole I would agree with you Chris on the poor level of number of affiliates taking part – as seems to happen all too often, when push comes to shove, apathy rules – obviously there will always be some like Elaine in this case (hope your eyes are better now Elaine) who can’t attend for pressing reasons on the day but it would have been good to see more affiliates in general make the effort.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:25:02 +0000

I do feel bad about not being able to take part – unfortunately not being able to see my computer screen had to take precedence, so a trip to the opticians was unavoidable. I do hope that the points I made to Fiona were brought up and discussed, and I do look forward to feedback and hopefully a change in attitude, if not commissions.