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“Cultivates the serious and honest”, from the headline of this post. I love that statement pulled out of the Affiliate testimonial below. Take a look at the rest of what Blake from favorideas.com says about our partnership. Thanks for all your continued support and feedback, Blake!
Affiliate marketing is still kind of a wild west, last frontier way of making a living. For that reason there’s plenty of wildcat stuff on the fringes: cookie-stuffing affiliates, slippery merchants and sometimes, (ouch) exploitational networks. Anyone whose daily bread starts overlapping significantly with their affiliate income gets quite an education in these things. I took some lumps with various networks when my business first took off, but thanks to AvantLink’s timing in entering the marketplace, I got spoiled pretty early on. When the staff aren’t being helpful, responsive and even touchy-feely (ever get a call from a network rep when they’re actually at top of a ski slope on a holiday? Thought not!), they’re invisible. Actually, they’re better than invisible, because over the months and years I’ve developed this delightful sense that they’re battling for my rights behind the scenes. I have a lot of trust in AvantLink, something that would be naive on my part with many networks. And even when I ask for something a little out of the ordinary in terms of data to work with, they advocate for it.I don’t cheat merchants, and all I want to do is get my business done. Because Avantlink has a value system that excludes the squirrelly and cultivates the serious and honest, I don’t worry about getting paid for the legitimate sales I send. Nor do I feel like merchants are constantly worrying about me pulling one over on them. Most of the time, I don’t think about how much I appreciate this environment until I have to do a little business somewhere else; then it all comes back.
Blake Kritzberg
www.favorideas.com
Recently Dave MacLeay, a valued Affiliate partner on our network, was asked by an AM why he was migrating his links from the large network they had been on, to AvantLink (where this particular merchant just launched with us, too). Here was Dave’s answer:
Why AvantLink? In a nutshell: they have robust, reliable tools for datafeeds and reporting, outstanding personal customer service, and a great philosophy and approach to the business. They’re more flexible and nimble than any other network I’ve worked with, and are very responsive to new ideas from both merchants and publishers. Rather than trying to enforce a top-down, network-centric relationship, they really seem to understand that their role is to facilitate, enable, and support productive relationships between merchants and affiliates. (Ironically, that puts them in a stronger, more trusted position than other networks that try to control or limit contact between affiliates and merchants.) Because AvantLink is selective about who they work with, they’re able to provide customer service that’s head-and-shoulders above anyone else in the industry. Most of all, they just seem to “get it” — it’s about giving partners the tools and support they need to be productive and then getting out of their way. For all those reasons, whenever I have a choice of networks, AvantLink gets my business.
Dave MacLeay
Co-Founder, Publisher
Trailspace.com
There you have it. 
Thanks Dave, for your valuable feedback, kind words and support!
Recent Affiliate testimonial sent to our support team:
This is why I think you guys are destined for greatness. Thank you very much for listening to and ultimately implementing my suggestions, I’m looking forward to being able to grow my sales volume with this new data. I can’t think of any other network I work with that would have done more than just respond with a canned “we’ll look into it” email. Kudos to you and your team, I’ll continue to sing your praises to every affiliate and merchant I know.
Warm regards,
Scott
Artisan Interactive Consulting
We’d like to thank Scott for his support, kind words and all the sales he’s generating for our merchants! (merchants, hint hint ;))
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