April 23rd, 2009 
How many times have you had an affiliate network manager steal your keywords or give out one of your landing pages to another affiliate? Woah….wait a minute…
I didn’t ask you when is the last time you heard of something like that happening…..I asked when was the last time it’s happened t you?
You see, we have this really big problem as affiliate marketers and what’s even greater about it is that the internet has made it even more easy to do it…
We as people are huge story tellers, we love to exaggerate…If it isn’t true, we’ll make it up…We aren’t lying…we’re simply making it a little more interesting than it was…we don’t want people to think we’re boring and that what happens to us isn’t cool…
You see, this is where the problem started. Affiliate managers are human beings…at least as far as I know…Unless the government is tied up in this conspiracy as well…
Anyways, so as humans, they make mistakes and do things they probably shouldn’t do…like tell other affiliates stuff about our campaigns, landing pages, ads, etc…even when they know they shouldn’t. However, and this is a big however, this isn’t as likely as most of you seem to think… Very rarely do affiliate managers actually share information that is actually worth them sharing…
One thing most of us seem to forget is that the affiliate companies don’t make any money if we aren’t making money as affiliates. Again, I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but we take stories that happen once in a great while to an affiliate and start telling everyone that we’ve heard that it’s happened to 50 affiliates! Ahhh come on…you can admit it!
Affiliate networks seriously aren’t out there trying to screw you over. They, for the most part, are out there to make money and without your help….they aren’t making any!
So quit listening to what everyone else is saying and give a little trust to your affiliate manager…you might be surprised…
Sorry, just a little rant I wanted to get off my chest, I talk to a lot of people that are scared beyond words that their affiliate managers are going to steal all of their stuff and give it away… You may be surprised at just how much your AM can help you out!
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I don’t think this problem is exaggerated at all. It happens often, way more often than most affiliates probably know and it is a big problem in this industry but unfortunately one that I don’t see getting solved anytime in the near future.
AM’s are fiercely competitive and when they hear a boatload of money an affiliate is making another AM he knows they ask questions and talk. That AM naturally wants that business for himself sine they get commission so way too often he goes back to his own affiliates and leaks the info so they start a competing campaign. I haven’t heard these stories, I have seen it first hand many many times and it sucks but really not much you can do about it.
Yeah it sucks if you loose business as a result of it. People just want to copy your success.