Affiliate Sale $16.56 from a program I didn't realized still existed
Last week I got an email saying I just made a commission from 1 sale totaling $16.56.
Which is great to hear but the fact is the merchant I joined back in 2016 eventually stopped having affilaites and left Commission Junction who had them promoting their program.
So when this happen which was roughly about 1.1/2 years ago I though no use having any of their posts on my website as the affilaite program is dead so why promote if I won't be getting any sale.
Well as I said they left the affilaite programs and ceased all affilaites they had.
A couple days before this happen I checked my emails and got a promotional link to promote for them. I thought What the ??
Why are they giving me links to promote them when they told me ages ago that they are not having an affilaite program anymore.
So I sent them an email to confirm about this promo link and why am I getting this when I know they left the program.
In the meantime while waiting for their response I checked with Commission Junction and saw I was still affiliated with them and it still showed that I was joined since 2016 and accepted.
Apparently I forget to close my affilaite with them and only deleted my posts about them.
As I saw I was still an apparennt affilaite I thought what the heck let's promote this link and only did this on Facebook and Twitter as I had no posts on my website anymore.
A couple of hours later I saw there was 1 unique visitor to my link as you can see in the top image plus this was a promotion for a couple of days only
A few days later I got another email from this merchant saying I made a commission it is still pending but they hold on to it for a month in case there are any returns which is fine.
LOL and I was still waiting for my response asking them what happen and why they sent me the link to promote them
They finally came back two weeks later saying yes they originally left but decided to rejoin Commission Juction and that is why I got the sale.
Lessons learnt
Goes to show don't delete your posts too quickly you can always save them as Private and hope the merchant made come back as I have seen this happen with other programs even though I wasn't affilaite with them.
Glad I didn't click unfollow with them. Now I have to re do my original posts and put new ones back on my site.
Definiatly was a nice and unexpected surprise not only beaning given a promote link to a company I knew had left but to get a commission as a resuslt with just one visitor was definiatly a bonus.
The funny thing was there was no notification saying they came back which I would normally get.
But I am not complaining.considering I wasn't expecting anything from them.
Thanks for yoru time
Andre
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Brilliant! I had one program that was canceled while they still owed my $50+ in commissions (not through a reputable network). I immediately switched my post to Draft mode and went looking for an alternative product in the same field to promote.
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Good on you Andre. Many congrats!
Trevor
Thank you.
Much appreciated.
Andre