A recent post on communicating effectively with affiliates has prompted me to post my own rules, as I am increasingly having to field phone calls during the day.
i) Email me. You have my email address. I can access my Google mail email on my mobile and pc.
ii) Do not telephone me if you haven’t already sent me an email. In the rare chance I am going to be interested in what you have to say over the phone, I am only going to ask you to send me an email repeating what we’ve discussed.
iii) Do not MSN me to tell me about a generic promotion that I could read about in email or a forum post.
iv) Do not telephone me asking to promote your offer that ends in 48 hours time. You should have sent me an email or posted on the A4U forum a week ago. And if you did either of those and I still haven’t promoted it, then assume that I’ll be skipping this one.
v) If you do MSN me, please send a courtesy follow-up email confirming any details that I may need to recall. Once that window is closed the information is not there to refer to.
vi) Do not email, telephone, or MSN me asking to sign-up to or promote a shop, if I already am.

vii) Do email me. If it’s sent to my Google mail address then it will get filtered based on its content. If it includes certain trigger words then it will get read and therefore actioned sooner than later.
viii) Do talk to me at the next affiliate event I attend. If I do pass you a business card, you may spot that it doesn’t include a phone number on it. It does have my email address …