Hi, I need advice on approving affiliates...

I would be more inclined to approve someone for instant payments
if they had 25 or more sales, but I would still try to look at who they
are and if anything about them made me uneasy, I would either only
approve them for delayed payments or even decline their request.

It's more about finding the right affiliates than getting as many as you
can, and one "bad" affiliate can cause a lot of problems.

Willie

Basically the way I'm doing it is no one gets instant payments unless they talk to me on the phone. If they have over 25 sales they go on delayed. If they want instant we can chat and I can suss it out based on how I feel about it. I like to think I have pretty good instincts but it's not fool proof obviously. If they have less than 25 they have to talk to me period. You definitely shouldn't approve anyone for instant payments if you're not sure what about them. Certain countries are a big flag on the radar too. Basically any third world country where scams proliferate.

Hope this helps
Marc Rodill

Ben Adkins makes you add him on skype as an added measure of protection. I know some sellers ask for your facebook profile. When I want to get approved I have sent videos of what I am planning on doing if I really wanted to promote. So I guess legit affiliates shouldn't have any problems explaining who they are and how they work. My .02

Only approve people you know, come on the WF and do some research on them. Don't approve everybody or you will set your self up to get scammed. Many will ask to promote your product, but you have to be realistic, and say will all these guys really make sales for me.

You will have an idea, on who you can approve, should they apply, people who you know would never risk their rep or business here on WF for a few bucks.

Just noticed that you are new here

Just use due diligence

I have also learned my lesson about approving affiliates. When I instantly approved around 20+ affiliates on Warrior Plus without knowing them except a few, I was really pissed off and got scammed. Right now, I am using the JVZoo platform and I have approved them but in delayed commissions. I even saw one guy who requests to be an affiliate which he had 25+ sales, but still if I don't know this guy for real, I still set him to delayed commissions.

I have indeed included my affiliate questions on how are they promoting my product. If they can't answer all of my questions, then I won't approve them. Delayed commissions are pretty much safer than instant.

I typically recommend to PayGear vendors not approving people they do not know for instant commission. If the affiliate is going to be a consistent affiliate then have them drive sales for two or three months. If they turn out to be real after a few months then turn them on instant.

Coming out of Corp. America as a manager, I tend to use what I learned there. EOE is the mainstay and you can't discriminate against a whole culture of people due to a couple bad apples.

Setting commission payments to "delayed" is your best protection; as there is no scam if they're not making money. Don't pay them until the refund period is finished. I tend to make my refund period 15days instead of the proverbial 30 or 60; this is from experience with processing banks. You can deftly dispute a chargeback with a good 15days under your belt.... its also very fair to the Customer -- they should know whether or not they want your product after 15days of possession.

15days also allows for a rather consistent payment schedule for your Affiliate(s), as well. That's how Clickbank pays; bi-weekly. You just have to employ control over self to not spend any of the money during that 15day period; as JVZoo just drops the money in your account.

HTH
tecHead

Delayed commissions if you don't know them. One of the crooks that I approved had 200+ sales (probably most fraudulent) and I got stuck with the bill when all the chargebacks came rolling in.