Affiliate convention in Amsterdam-discussions of rakeback

[Pokeraddict]

nothing personal against RRR, but unless they agreed to operate as a non profit site, why should they get preferential treatment about being the only place to advertise rakeback? (I doubt the owners would like to give up the probably substantial income generated)

No offense taken at all but I'm not sure I understand this statement.

As for being the only place to advertise rakeback I think most affiliates will tell you RRR and 2+2 are about the only effective places to advertise it. Most large poker forums will not allow outside affiliate advertising because they have their own agendas which conflict. I think most will agree those few other forums that allow rb advertising turn out to be a waste of money most if not all of the time. I have wasted many thousands of dollars trying and I know many others have too. I seriously doubt there will be any growth in places to advertise rb. My opinion is biased but I think most affiliates agree that more directories arent the answer either. The only answer is more places to advertise in existing large communities which will probably never happen.

RRR ran non profit at first as more of a player advocate site for its first 2 months and I honestly didnt think it would ever make more then a few hundred dollars a month. I did it because I am pro player which probably stems from my long time involvement in the Casinomeister community. Obviously there was an unexpected, massive amount of demand for it and IMO it took RRR or a site like it that surely would have launched eventually to help get rakeback out in the open and help this industry boom as it is now. I still am baffled by the explosive growth it had.

Keep in mind before RRR virtually all affiliates worked out of gmail accounts or forum private messages without any real check and balance. Now it is close to a full time job, I seriously doubt anyone would do it for free. I quit a very profitable propping situation because I no longer had time to do it, well, I was burned out too. The advertising money has to come from somewhere and the work it takes to keep RRR a Google authority site is not easy. There are more hours of work in the content and publishing then most will ever know. This is why content thieves are such a pet peeve to me.

I guess that got a bit OT. I'm happy to discuss openly a way to improve RRR. I always run major changes by affiliates on a majority rules vote but most ideas get voted down. This either tells me RRR is doing well as is or my ideas suck. I'm always open for suggestions on how to improve RRR and feedback positive or negative from anyone. If nobody tells me what they dont like I cant improve.