Is the Affiliate Requests forum becoming Show Me II?

[chefcateringbiz]

We all want to be promoted, but lately the requests here are random designers posting things they want anonymous affiliate people to promote. I get it, you're special, I'm special, we're all special. But isn't this forum for people who want to share other people's designs, and should these random show-and-tells be moved to the Show Me topic?

I'm not trying to pick on anyone in particular, so don't get offended. It's just a pattern now, and I'm asking a question about the purpose here.

[Barbara]

For sure, it appears the description of the board is causing the problem. I don't look at Affiliate Requests so much anymore after having had to plow through threads that belong in Show Me.

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[Store_owner]

Dang, YES it is confusing. I don't EVER hardly come here or post in forum and I posted in affilate requests as I thought creators were looking for affiliate marketers and I didn't need to do that, because Im doing quite well and was just feeling altruistic that day. I thought "show me" was basically a little "humble brag thread" about new designs people were excited about like show and tell ( which I do enjoy seeing others so happy ). UGH. But, Reading this post above just turned me off to the whole forum in it's entirety. No offense taken. This complaint just reminded me of social media internet warriors . No offense. 😛

[catinarezi]

I discovered the Show me board after posting here. No moderator migrated my post to the right place and I wasn’t able to do that (is there a way?).

But it’s sad that we’re being crucified because of a misleading description of a board. Even sadder to think that people who refers to our creations as “unsolicited content” are the ones selling our stuff.

Btw, I think things don’t work well for creators the way they are now. Affiliates can make their requests, and from what I’ve seen by now, they look only at their topic. And who doesn’t know the Show me board come here because wants to get affiliates. This Show me board has lots of topics where people post a lot (my e-mail is flooded) but receive almost no kudos because there are only creators there as affiliates seem to enter only here, but now we learn not to post our UNSOLICITED CONTENT.

We have to see what the promoter wants and create specially for them, unless we have the luck of already having their dream content.

There should be a single board where the topic started with [CREATOR/DESIGNER] or [AFFILIATE] before the title, so we would know which one is posting and eventually we could have the luck to be seen by people who could be interested in promoting our stuff.

[Barbara]

@Store_owner  & @catinarezi  Both of your posts are more proof that Zazzle needs to clarify what the "Affiliate Requests" forum is for. Granted, we had a similar problem back in the old forums where nothing existed for affiliates and people were posting their latest-greatest designs in the forum dedicated to the ins and outs of promoting. So Zazzle created the forum for affiliates, and darned if it didn't work truly well. Something happened to it here with the advent of the new forum software where the description isn't as clear as it could be, though additionally there's the problem where Zazzle has made it more difficult to affiliate for anyone other than oneself. (Blessings on Highton Ridley for mitigating some of the problem.)

Though the Show Me forum is simply a fun place for members to display their products, it's nevertheless periodically visited by affiliates, and let's not forget that these forums are public, meaning that outsiders can see what's there too. Do we get much in the way of sales from there? Probably not, but people still enjoy posting there.

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[TheFrogFactory]

Agreed. This was the intended purpose of the affiliate design request forum.
The show me forum is more suited for product promotion.

[TheFrogFactory]

Looking at the description it now says this: The Affiliate Request board is where Zazzle Affiliates can submit requests for products that fit a certain theme, and Zazzle Creators can share their content for a chance to be promoted.
Hence the confusion for newcomers.
Nobody's fault here.

[Barbara]

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@TheFrogFactory wrote:

Looking at the description it now says this: The Affiliate Request board is where Zazzle Affiliates can submit requests for products that fit a certain theme, and Zazzle Creators can share their content for a chance to be promoted.
Hence the confusion for newcomers.
Nobody's fault here.

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I suspect Zazzle didn't realize their description says affiliates can ask for specific products/designs and that creators can separately offer up unrelated products/designs. To match the original forum, it might have been better to say, "...can submit requests for products that fit a certain theme in which Zazzle creators can post content matching the requested theme."

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