Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
there’s no reason you can’t do it all manually if you don’t have the funds. just a thought, but i’ve seen sites that do, and do it fine. they offer zip sets, embeddable videos, free sites and more.
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
Thanks for the advice.
I have an affiliate site currently (http://fantasticforeskin.com/affiliates/) but I thought it was looking a little clunky.
I’m not a programmer, so I was hoping AdultAffiliateCMS would make for a good solution.
But I’ve also learned to lissen when people here give advice. It’s great to have a place to tap into this much experience!
andreiDL, I WISH Elevated X offed an affiliate site as part of their package. It would make my life so easy since all my content is already there and they build a solid CMS. I’ve asked them to work on it, but they’re pretty busy and backed up.
If there are any other Elevated X users on here, ask them to make am affiliate site template. I think it would be such a huge benefit for their members!
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
Get NATS and ElevatedX.
Invest some money into your site, and take it to the next level! 
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I only wish I’d had this advice, or I had asked a few more questions, because we went with adultaffiliatecms and it’s been a long & expensive nightmare to get our affiliate site launched. If there’s any doubt in your mind Robert, I would definitely recommend you avoid this outfit.
That said, we are almost ready to launch our affiliate site, which at least offers embedded content with download links. We will add downloadable content via zips this week and switch from our old url to http://euroboyxxx.com/affiliates/ so please update your bookmarks. There’s an RSS feed too.
I would appreciate any feedback and feature requirements. It’s not NATS, I know, but hopefully provides some useful tools in the meantime.
George
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
I have emailed those people many many times with pre-sales questions. They have never bothered to answer my emails.
If they are so unresponsive to people wanting to possibly spend money with them can you just imagine how it would be trying to get tech support for them! Move on and forget them!
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
I’m sorry to hear, wish I could’ve helped you out more as I was one who recommended them. The program can be confusing, but once it works it serves a good function, but getting on track can be arduous. I’ve known Claudio for years now, met him in San Fransisco, he’s a nice guy but they could use someone to help with customer support issues. I don’t use that program anymore, as for recommendations, they’re on their own.
There are actually a myriad of choices for setting up your affiliate programs, some basic then certainly if you choose nats. If you’re running a paysite you need an affiliate program, there are not a lot of choices out there and the days of webmasters taking the time to build their own templates are not completely over, but certainly antiquated. Nats has pretty much become the industry standard, a large part of satisfying your affiliates is ease of use and consistent updates.
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
If you’re still in touch with him, perhaps you could suggest to Claudio that he pays more attention to threads like this instead of spamming the board once a week with his “buy me” posts. So irritating to see supposed business people posts spam after spam, but when someone has a question or issue, they’re nowhere to be found.
Honestly, the next time he spams the board, I’m going to pull some quotes from this thread until this issue gets resolved. There’s no point in anyone else getting sucked in.
Moderator
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
They’ve been banned from most boards, or at least warned in a strict manner. Don’t know why they do like they do, also curious myself why they never took the time to develop or support their own product.
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
Very odd. But thanks for the explanation.
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Thanks, Euroboy. It’s nice to hear from someone who’s had experience with the product.
I use Elevated X for my site and it would make my life so much easier if they offered a template for affiliate services.
AdultAffiliateCMS is so tempting. The pitch is great and I already love Wordpress. But I’d be a fool to ignore all the good advice I’m getting here. Really appreciate it!
I should mention that I had lunch with AJ from Elevated X a few weeks ago and he said they’re working on an affiliate solution as well as some other upgrades. Good to see all the high marks for Elevated X here. It’s pretty solid. Looking forward to seeing the upgrades they have coming cuz I don’t think I’ll EVER be able to edit Smarty templates!
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Lol I’m with you on the Smarty templates, I really like Elevated X, but those Smarty templates baffle me completely, I had to hire a Smarty designer. Hope they create some plain old php versions
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
Robert,
Do yourself a favor and save some $$$.
http://www.wojfun.com/affiliate_scripts/hosted_galleries_manager/
This guy is amazing. It’s not a whole package.
He is ALWAYS available on icq and i have used his products.
lloyd
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
Just get NATS.
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NATS isn’t free. It’s not necessarily an option for everyone, plus you have to cut your own affiliate cheques. For a small site, NATS can be a financial burden and create a lot of extra work.
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
Below 300 sales per months its $150. You have to write checks, but if you offer wire / domestic / paypal you can just ‘dump’ these each week and its takes 15mins.
I know i make it sound easy. But it can be, if you want to make it.
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
NATS is an amazing platform, but it is not for everyone. Many affiliates wont even signup to market a single niche site using the NATS program.
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You can also offer a "pay via ccbill’ NATS program. Lloyd you know first hand how much just the reporting alone can help you increase sales.
However, with how sketchy ccbill has been lately…
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
If someone chooses not to use NATs. The link I gave to his tools is kick ass. He has some solid scripts there. I have used the WP plugin, the banner manager, and the flash system. When Intense Cash was on V3 of nats they used all three, even though they had NATS. Not sure what they use now.
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
[QUOTE=abostonboy;137529]Robert,
Do yourself a favor and save some $$$.
http://www.wojfun.com/affiliate_scripts/hosted_galleries_manager/
This guy is amazing. It’s not a whole package.
He is ALWAYS available on icq and i have used his products.
lloyd[/QUOTE]
I can vouch for woj as well. I’ve worked with him a couple times over the years on the various programs I’ve done geek work on.
I worked with him on wrapping his tools into wordpress. I know there are a lot of wordpress haters, but I like it and it’s a quick way to wrap something up and make it look nice.
we aren’t 100% done, the POTD page needs some tweaking too. but take a look around. see what you think.
i would say admin’ing it all is a bit… convoluted but its easy to get the hang of.
Re: Affiliate site solutions: AdultAffiliateCMS
Woj rocks, he is always doing work with us!
I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend NATS or MPA so that you can not only get the benefit of added affiliate tools and such, but also take advantage of so many other NATS features like cascading, adding in 3rd party billers, geotargeting, etc. Just adding a good phone biller like GXBill will increase your revenues by 5 to 10%, add in the cascade for another 5 to 10% increase and you are talking real dollars here! And if 10 to 20% happens to equal $150/mo or greater, then NATS will pay for itself.