Sharing links

[Rachel_E]

Hi All,

I've just tried to share a link as I always do (using the share option) and I notice the link is no longer coming with ?rf=. and our affiliate / ambassador link. Is this correct?  

I know there has just been a change, but I wonder if we need to manual add the ?rf= now or this is just with issues during this transition period.  I am sure I am doing something wrong 😄

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Rachel

[Badeesie]

I was under the impression that everybody enrolled in either associate program was automatically rolled over to be in the ambassador program. So if you are able to get referral commissions at all, you are now in the ambassador program.

[katkat1959]

About five years or so ago they started the self promoter program. It was difficult then. It didn't last that long.  I had a great gal at Zazzle that helped me when customer service was very good. She is gone now. Zazzle is losing site of good customer service. I feel it 100%. I have been with them since they started. I am a solo artist and I do everything on my own, so there have been huge challenges.

[Anne]

@Badeesie I was in the associate program before, but not in the promoter program. So I was enrolled in the "ambassador" program "automatically". The RF code was removed from sharing from the product pages or collections and also after opting out of this "ambassodor" thing (it is now continually trying to push me to join it), the RF code is not there any more and apparently has to be added manually. 😠

[katkat1959]

You need to opt in under the Ambassador link in your account. If you don't, I am not sure if you would get any referral anymore.

[Barbara]

As others have found and I just now tested, if I share someone else's product, my id# is tacked onto the link. If I share my own product, it's a clean link with nothing tacked onto it. So the only way in which it's different from the old way is that Zazzle is adding the id# for us, and we don't even have to think about it. Basically, nothing in the process has changed other than that everyone is essentially in the Promoter program unless they opt out of the Ambassador program.

Is my view of it possibly too simplistic? It's difficult to tell since, if there's a convoluted way to explain something, that's the way Zazzle chooses to explain it.

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[RMorganSnapshot]

I've come to the conclusion that my best course of action is to add my RF# to my own products when sharing. I'm not willing to take any chances on not getting "something" if a customer clicks my link but then decides to buy something else while here. There was a reason I only ever signed up for the associates program. But now we've been "forced" into this new ambassador program making things more difficult. Seems to be what Zazzle does.........

[Anne]

@RMorganSnapshot  You can opt out of the "ambassador" program. You will need to add your rf manually though as it has been stripped off the share link option.

[Malissa]

If you opt out of the ambassador program that means you will not be able to earn referrals at all, but you are still subject to all the marketing and referral carveouts.