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We are very pleased here with the rate of new affliates pre- registering to our program. We have now 221, a month, after we have announced the program. However, I will be happy to hear feedback from you, experienced affiliates. Areas to improve and ideas how to make it even more appealing. Positive comments are very welcome. I love challenges and I will try to deal with each one of them posted here.
Jonathan
here’s a Q.
Who (person) has control over the content driven to the users.
What is the documented plan of action if a member of B4 decides to leave the corporation or the corporation becomes no more, yet there are still users?
What protection does the affiliate have as a guarantee the players will be tracked for life (even if B4 decides to quit)
We have no control over the content. The content is fed by the properties and we enter them (automatically- XML Feeders) into various fields in the data base. The user has total control over how he wants the data to be sorted. All the data tables presented to the user are sort able based on user decision. Alerts ( tournaments schedule notification and more) are, again, user choice and being done automatically by the system. The only manual control we have is the messaging system. Here the data arrives from the operators and we decide ( based on frequency and relevancy consideration) when and if to send. BTW< each user has a full screen of preferences and can decide if he wants messages and when.
A user provided by an affiliate has a hard coded link attached to it. This is done by the system. We cannot change it. Users can not be re-allocated once they downloaded the client.
We are a well financed cooperation, with credible investors behind us ( non from the gambling industry) and assuming we succeed, I do not see any reason why we cease operation and why the affiliate is not being credited during the user life time operation.
Hope it answer your questions.
Jonathan
@B4Playing 134463 wrote:
A user provided by an affiliate has a hard coded link attached to it. This is done by the system. We cannot change it. Users can not be re-allocated once they downloaded the client.
Someone has access to the db and the system I would suppose?
Sure. Only developers and management. Affiliates managers, media buyers, finance, tech support and admin are not authorized. I would not worry here. We have spent considarable time defining access authorization, fraud control and data security ( having bad past experience with various properties).
Jonathan
well that sure makes me feel better lol..
So there is 0 legal recourse for a developer taking off with access to thousands of installed clients.. Not like it hasnt happened before…
Quote:( having bad past experience with various properties)Will it be possible for participating affiliate programs to see the actual referrer?
I guess not, so complaints about scrapers and content thieves will not be possible to file with the programs anymore.
This has been the one effective way for affiliates to fight theft of their content.
Firstly I am happy that you do believe that we will have 1000s of users. :wink-winkWe are actually looking into couple of 100K in our first year.
Each affiliate can log into our system and get a report which indicated:
Number of clicks
Number of downloads
Number of active users
number of clicks into properties (provided by them)
Number of properties’ software downloads (provided by them)
Number of players (provided by them)I guess that it will be almost impossible to manipulate the data above.
We are here for long and not looking into work against our affiliates. We have too much to lose.
As per securing the database from misusage by developers, we will look into it and see what else can be done. Any suggestion?
Jonathan
To all who are concerned:
B4Playing has a clear policy not to cooperate with Black Hat affiliates. We will do our utmost to avoid business relation with them.
We have spent considerable time trying to technically avoid misuse of our tool. However, we reckon that some are smarter than us and we will work further to eliminate any misuse of it. Our tracking system analyzes each affiliate separately and various thresholds were defined to alert us in case of misuse.Itay
