Referrals & Affiliates

[Snorlax]

Does referral programs and affiliate programs work for communityies? Would people actually refer and bring people to the community if given incentives? If so what incentives actually work?

 

[sincerem]

Incentives like money is the best when it comes to driving people to run affiliate marketing for business brands. You don't expect individuals to do affiliate for you free of charge without financial reward.

 

[Demon_skeith]

Back about 7-8 years ago affiliates were a HUGE thing in forums, nearly every site you went to had some kind of mini affiliate banner scrolling or posted somewhere. These days, the affiliate thing seems to have died down, unless there is money to be made.

 

[Xyphien]

I agree, most referrals are only there if you make money off of it. However, with a Pokemon forum you could do some other things too. For example, you start off with an Egg, and you need to get x amount of referrals to hatch that pokemon. Then, you get x amount of referrals to evolve the pokemon. This would make it so people want to capture all pokemon and refer people to do so. It would essentially be a pokemon mini-game built into the forum. You could even have it so they can battle eachother, etc. It would require a decent bit of custom work, but it would be spectacular if done right.