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I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how it works without signing up and gave up. The site is very skimpy on details. What are the typical commission rates? How do the commissions compare to Amazon affiliate rates? What is the advantage of using this service vs. existing affiliate programs? Feels like you are trying to appeal to the naive by just saying "magically get paid by talking about products"
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Providing a check mark or some kind of validation as to whether or not a link is covered for rewards is a great idea, I've added that to the list of potential features. I understand the cynicism - the entire affiliate world is pretty shady, which is why I'm so determined to disrupt it. We are using 3rd party services to help us get reach across top merchants online. Sounds like this part of the service needs more att…
Saying the entire affiliate world is shady is intellectually lazy. There are many areas of the industry that are very stable and mature.
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Agreed, my personal preference is an iframe from a user experience perspective although from an engineering standpoint this could be a nightmare. The interstitial is somewhat industry standard, but feels very high friction. Thoughts on which is better in your opinion?
I like the iframe idea - it could actually be interesting to try to write the disclosure as marketing copy to join Refer.ly. EG "[Firstname] thought you'd love [product name] from [vendor]. For spreading the love [firstname] gets a referral fee if you buy! Find out how you can start making money referring friends to products that you love too with Refer.ly today!"
I don't know.. I'd feel a little sleazy sending a referral link to a friend.
Viglink IMO take 25% off the commission, which means 75% is available to go to Refer.ly/User. Not sure what percentage Refer.ly is planning to take for themselves but might not leave much left for the user.
As someone who has built a platform that aggregates all the affiliate networks into one place, it's a royal pain. Viglink take away that pain, but for a price & in order to provide the best value to your users in the long run you'll probably have to become an aggegrator yourselves.
But in the eyes of YCombinator, I don't think this matters, because they aren't betting on refer.ly. They're betting on the woman who's founding it. PG's been pretty open about betting on the people and not the idea. Based on the article (and Dave McClure's glowing recommendation) it seems like a pretty sound bet.
If I was interested in having people refer customers for my SaaS app, is there a way to sign up for refer.ly to generate and track these sort of referral links?
Is there not a US equivalent of Quidco ( http://www.quidco.com )? For genuine friend-to-friend recommendations, I'd rather refer a friend of mine to make a purchase through Quidco and have them claim back the full referral fee themselves (minus a £5/year subscription), than pocket the referral fee myself. If I was linking to a larger group, why should I go through Referly and not set up an affiliate account direct wi…
Seriously, this. I just checked my Quidco account - I've made £283.13 cashback via Quidco in the last two years. The vast bulk of that from big ticket purchases (e.g. flights, hotels) where I've remembered to log in to Quidco first. By contrast, the amount of money I could make from recommending books, movies etc to friends via a Referly would be in the pennies. To sum up: Quidco, I just remember to login before I bu…
I love it. It sounds like a few people here have been thinking about a similar idea, and you can count me in as well. The truth is, my company would be happy to pay out 10% of any order if it resulted from a genuine recommendation. Of course anyone experienced with the affiliate world can figure out a way to capture that money, but it's not really available to your everyday Facebook user. Maybe Refer.ly will fix that…
> I haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing Amazon must have some rule against this. That seems to be the case, so they'd have to make a special arrangement with Amazon to do so. > 9. ... nor will you create links formatted with your Associate’s tag for, or display such links on, a site that is not your site. https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/oper...
Amazon associates presents a big tracking challenge because their system seems to be designed to give up as little data as possible. It is by far the hardest network I have come across to login as a user and retrieve transaction data in an automated way.