Reply To: Plugin Boutique is Redesigning Their Site….Here’s a Sneak Peak

[peter]

Someone just made a post accusing me of secretly doing marketing research for Plugin Boutique with this thread. Because it was toxic, I removed it and privately DMed that person and things are resolved. But I want to address the acusation that I am covertly conducing marketing research for Plugin Boutique.

Nope. I do not advise Plugin Boutique and am not conducting “market research” on their behalf.

As I’ve clearly stated all over this site and shared in numerous posts, I am in Plugin Boutique’s (APD, Best Service, and a few other) affiliate programs to help pay for the costs of operating this site. I’ve made around 12 bucks this last quarter from Plugin Boutique — I have and will always be very transparent about this stuff. I am not an advisor to Plugin Boutique and I am not a market researcher anyhow. Market researchers commonly have PhDs. I’ve worked with a bunch of them and am certainly not one.

Brands regularly send their affiliates previews of website redesigns; I’ve done it with a major brand website I managed. It’s standard stuff. Brands want to make their affiliates feel involved and get their input. In the blast email they sent to me and all of their affiliates they asked that we don’t share the link to their new redesigned site preview. They didn’t state we couldn’t share some screenshots and I thought, considering that a lot of us are PIB customers — including me — that it would be of interest to people. I thought it would be fun. I also wanted to share my own feedback to PIB and see what others thought. That wasn’t covert marketing research. I don’t get paid to give PIB feedback or do this. The only relationships I have with them are as a customer and a tiny affiliate that doesn’t even generate commissions that are a fraction of what I spend with them in a year.

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