What the Fuck is Zac Johnson Yappin About?

Ohhhhh the dark side – spooky ooooohhhhhh

I saw this sensationally titled post by Zac the Sac late tonight. Now, I’m all liquored up and ready to go out on the streets and beat up hobos, but I had to pause and discuss this nonsense.

First off, who still reads his blog? ZJ.com is like affiliate marketing kindergarten and you all need to graduate.

Second off – what’s with the scare-tactic title? Everybody panic! Your next paycheck from your favorite affiliate network is going to bounce!

Unlike traditional jobs where you show up and put time in, you are paid. As an affiliate, we spend our own money to generate revenue and leads for affiliate networks, then we usually get paid a week or two later

I thank you so much for explaining the difference to me. I’ve been telling people it all wrong in my new ebook….

While many of us focused on the evil side of rebills and how bad it was for the customer, it was actually destroying many affiliate networks at the same time.

What’s this “we” shit? Weren’t you always blogging about how bad they are – yet you promoted them yourself? Also this sentence is a grammatical nightmare and I’m not really sure what its saying. But I think it says that affiliate networks like to rape people in dark alleys?

If just one or two of the largest rebill vendors go bankrupt or simply choose not to pay the network, guess who gets screwed. The affiliate was already paid by the network and the rebill company already made and spent as fast as possible… leaving the affiliate network eat up the loss and possibly die.

That’s called risk and it’s common to every business in capitalism. Were ZJ readers under the impression networks were getting paid by magical money fairies that delivered what they owe, in full, each and every time?

Let’s quickly do some math.

I’ll get my calculator.

Say a network is getting $40 per lead from the rebill advertiser. The network than pays $35 per lead to the affiliate. The network ends up pushing 10,000 leads within it’s first month. This means the rebill advertiser owes the network $400,000. The affiliate network is probably going to pay their affiliates within 30 days, while some networks receive payments from their advertisers withing 30-60 days.

Maybe your dumbass shouldn’t extend $400,000 to some “shady” advertiser if you never worked with them before? Maybe you should have the capital to float this kind of money in the first place so one advertiser doesn’t ruin your business, before starting your network?

If the rebill advertiser ends up screwing over the affiliate network, the network is now $400,000 in the hole. Even if the network DOES get paid, they still end up making only $50,000 with the huge risk of dealing with these shady companies.

You hear that networks? Even if you do actually get paid, you’re really not making that much anyway so your existence is pretty pointless.

Another sign of the dying affiliate networks is the drastic amount of networks slimming down and simply cutting out their referral programs.

The only people who notice this are “make money online” bloggers who make their living telling people how sign up to their “choice” networks. If you’re in it for the long run, maybe you should spend time promoting the offers within the network, not the… you know… network.

With so many networks now in the game, margins are super thin and nearly all networks are at a 2% referral rate (with many limitations), or simply abolished or cut down their referral terms to nothing.

Maybe I just suck at economics, but wouldn’t more competition mean better rewards to gain new publishers? Like if some network offered 6% everyone would jump over there right? Or networks realized they don’t really care too much about bloggers who just keep sending newbie digital point retards their way?

Oh yeah – where did all these “networks” come from anyway? How did so many networks pop up, many run by incompetent and overly-leveraged amateurs anyway?

Maybe hasOffers?

The sad part is, I’m sure the best affiliate referrals come from other affiliates… yet networks continue to blow money on parties, wasted schwag or just bad advertising.

Fuck… this doesn’t bode well for the Party Planning Comittee.

This is why you don’t get invited to parties ZJ.

Names won’t be mentioned, but it’s only a matter of time before we will all the complications and disaster that is looming behind the scenes.

Here’s a thought – why stop being such a pussy and name some names? Why spout off doomsday predictions without any actual evidence or at least comments on who’s going down? If you’re the affiliate marketing savior, then say who affiliates should avoid.

Man I really hate his blog but I saw that sensational title and read the article. FUCK. FUCK YOU ZJ AND YOUR LINKBAIT.

If I wrote ZJ’s post I would’ve called it Dear Networks: Dee’s not payin you lolololol

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