Oddly the bigger sponsors are pretty good, probably as many have dedicated Affiliate Managers/Staff. It's the smaller sites that give the least support - and they are probably the ones that need affiliates the most.
I understand that many sponsors are doing more to generate the own traffic/sales, and can see the reasons why. However it would appear that all this is doing is robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's a vicious circle. We are doing ok, despite sales via affiliates falling, but we would be doing even better if we had both sales streams.
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