Thanks Mark, I appreciate the advice from an experienced person. =)
Any affiliate who believes like Arnold does are those that Cake is keen on dealing with. This is because we're so new and we purposfully didn't want to become part of a network to allow affiliates the chance to make sure another skin didn't suck their players into the network first.
We're happy to stay under the radar and get to know folks first prior to hitting the marketing gas, because it also helps us plug the holes with smaller events before we hold larger ones and have expensive mistakes happen.
Too many affiliates it seems have been burned in the past and they're very wary of dealing with an unproven, new, small traffic site. Completely understood. Cake has to prove we're worthy of the attention.
My issue though is the idea that Cake somehow can get a bad rep with affiliates due to the fact that we're trying to guarantee that only their tracked players are given free cash. I understand that players are on multiple forums and that they might indeed have clicked on a banner at Site A while being a huge contributor to Site B and they feel burned when they can't play in Site B's 1st event. But if a site finds that 40-60% of their "downloaders" are tracked to other sites, we're getting the brunt of that wake-up call for the affiliate.
I just wondered if I was way off base here.
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