Mailchimp & Affliate Links Question Finally Answered

Seems clear as mud to me

They don't mind you doing it... probably... but don't do it too much - but where do they define what too much is.

Seems like an attempt to have their cake and eat it.

I'm very surprised indeed to see you recommending exactly the course of action which has led to so many Warriors having their accounts closed down by Mailchimp.

I don't understand it at all. I can only imagine that either you're unaware of this, or perhaps you genuinely believe that all of them are making it up (for some mysterious reason best known to themselves)?!

Including this information? (Or just the parts that suit your perspective?) http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3762385

Maybe you see my point? They're giving conflicting information. Some on their website. Some with what their support staff say. Some with the way they close down people's accounts.

The last two of those three match up perfectly, while the first one is totally different, isn't it?

Do you still really think that "Take the information that Mailchimp gives at face value" is a helpful approach, here?!

Their acceptable use policy states otherwise:

http://mailchimp.com/legal/acceptable_use/

Now, the knowledge-base article to which you've linked attempts to address this by drawing a much-too-fuzzy distinction between "affiliate marketing" and "affiliate marketers":

That leaves some questions for anyone contemplating a MailChimp account:

1. Do you really want to be with a provider who makes a fuzzy distinction between affiliate marketers and affiliate marketing and admits itself the distinction is fuzzy?

2. Do you really want to be with a provider who apparently can't deal with the issues that other providers can deal with?

3. On a minor note, do you really want to be with a provider whose left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing -- namely, do you really want to be with a provider who lists affiliate marketing as unacceptable in its policies, forgets it's done so and thinks it's listed affiliate marketers as unacceptable in its policies, and then launches into a defense of affiliate marketing?

It's time marketers stop throwing their money at providers who are too interested in being anal policy wonks than virtual business partners.

It doesn't make sense to me, and it clearly doesn't make sense to the large number of members of this forum whose Mailchimp accounts have been closed down without their being able to understand why, and it also doesn't make sense of what Mailchimp's own support staff openly tell people, either: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3762385

Apart from all that, of course, it makes complete sense.

As ever, the whole subject is intrinsically circular/repetitive. This topic just bounced to life here (yet again) because someone mistakenly (albeit understandably, not knowing all the facts) imagined that the "information" on Mailchimp's site is new, or reliable, or "an answer", or something (rather than being part of the cause of the problem, as it has been for so long).

These threads don't change the facts of the situation.

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