Rejected Leads Gets a Message

I am waiting for the investigation outcome from revresponse. As far as friend/colleagues circle goes, I send out bulk mail to ignore the mails from tradepub. However, I found that placing online classified free ads on local newspaper looked to be contributing so learn something. Newbies will also drop as once more and more affiliates join, pie on newbies will drop as major chunk of newbies is with experts only. :)

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Thanks for the feedback. I’ve spent some time digging in to your questions and wanted to provide an update to gain closure on the discussion. There are distinctly two separate scenarios you reported that I’ll explain in further detail.

Reject Letters – this has been a long-standing email communication that goes out once per week to anyone who has failed to meet the magazine publisher’s specific eligibility requirements. RevResponse.com is not involved in the eligibility qualification decision, nor does RevResponse.com have any influence on the criteria. Generally, one or more of the following is required: 1. the subscriber’s work requires them to be informed and up-to-date about the subject matter covered by the trade publication, 2. the subscriber needs information about the types of products that are advertised or discussed in the trade publication, and/or 3. the subscriber evaluates, recommends and/or purchases types of products that are advertised or discussed in a trade publication. Publishers are interested in specific job titles and job functions, but may also evaluate and determine qualification based on other criteria asked in their qualification form. Additionally, publishers' criteria may change from time to time, based on their overall demographic needs and requirements.

Long before RevResponse.com was ever even thought of, the reject letter was created as a way to communicate to the user that they failed to meet the requirements defined by the publisher and consequently offer them access to a few additional offers more likely to convert for the specific user. We’ve opted to remove the promotion element of the additional offers on all future reject emails…this should have been removed in conjunction with the launch of RevResponse and we thank you for reporting this oversight.

Solo brand – This is not another partner. 'Solo' is one of our house sites specifically used in relation to our TradePub.com newsletter that subscribers have the chance to opt-in to on the bottom of every form displayed across our network. This is clearly presented to all users as a choice and nothing more. This works in the same capacity as every other established affiliate program from Amazon on down. Subscribers have the opportunity to receive email alerts from us in the future making available other titles related to their needs. Every affiliate program in existence takes this position. It's not to say that we don’t see your point; it's simply the economic course we have opted to pursue. We specifically set down the path to aggressively reward our partners for the leads that they generate up front. With that being said, we have thousands of partners that have been with us for years making more today than they ever have.

I hope this helped to address your questions. We sincerely appreciate you all as partners and thank you again for your input. If you need anything, please feel free to contact me directly at kschubert@netline.com

Thank you,
-Karen