Guys and gals – The affiliate program is RevenueWire (http://www.revenuewire.com). They market the common PC Tools mostly. They are also associated with AffiliateWire.
They lure you in with attractive promises then disable your account. Too bad to get the report in about them, as they have gotten some press in the industry lately. But these affiliate companies must learn to treat the affiliates (people) right who are their bread & butter – not just kiss the company’s ass who they are marketing products for. But unfortunately, this has been a common theme with the BAD affiliate companies recently. You have been warned.
Consumers do not seem to be too happy with their products either (from their sister processor site SafeCart). See these recent review at the Rip Off Report and ComplaintNow.
Remember you have a lot of choices with GOOD affiliate companies in the market who will treat you right. Check are Resources area for some guidance.
Have an affiliate alert? Contact me with your bad experience so we can help and warn others.
UPDATE – 4/14/2012
Received an email today in response to my blog post above from Sarah Hume, Marketing Manager at RevenueWire.
Here is the content of her email as sent to my office:
From: shume@revenuewire.com
Subject: Post RE: RevenueWire
Date: April 14, 2012 12:57:06 AM GMT+08:00
To: joe@realtimeaffiliatemarketing.com
From: Sarah Hume <shume@revenuewire.com>
Subject: Post RE: RevenueWire
Message Body:
Hi there,
I wanted to reach out to you regarding the recent post about our Company: http://www.realtimeaffiliatemarketing.com/affiliate-marketing/affiliate-alert-revenuewire/
I think your site is a valuable resource for affiliates, as there certainly is a lot to be weary of in our industry; however, our network prides itself of being professional, honest, and trustworthy – we are truly ‘built for affiliate, by affiliates’.
To clarify, AffliateWire is our affiliate network division of RevenueWire. We are a Cost Per Sale network focused on the software digital niche (including offers in categories such as PC and Mac utilities, drivers, registry cleaners, data recovery, media converters, etc).
We have very close relationships with all of our active affiliates. The affiliate who submitted the post on your site however, has been suspended from our network for valid reasons. The regulations of our network are to protect both our merchants as well as other affiliates; and in this case, the affiliate was negatively impacting both parties. I can certainly provide you more information if you’d like.
We’d prefer to continue to our discussions directly with this affiliate rather than in a public setting, and would appreciate if you could remove the post.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions,
Kind regards,
Sarah Hume
Marketing Manager
RevenueWire
Tel: 250-984-1179
This mail is sent via contact form on Real Time Affiliate Marketing http://www.realtimeaffiliatemarketing.com
Sorry Sarah, no can do… I know the affiliate and he is an honest and big player. May I suggest better communication before the fact next time – not just terminating people without any communication or warning. You are dealing with real people with real families…