"Black Mark" from Alpari. Debriefing

Thought, to write or not to write about this incident post, but since Sergey asked in the comments, then, maybe, and other readers will be interested…

A couple of days ago I received a letter on soap from Alpari letter with the following content:

Attention partner: increase your conversion!

Dear partner!

Traffic comes from your domain, which is not converted into open personal accounts of clients in our company and, respectively, in clients, which could bring you income. We strongly recommend that you analyze the reasons for this situation., fix it and start attracting targeted traffic, to get you income from our affiliate program. From my side, we are ready to provide you with support and assistance.

If you are interested in working and earning with the help of the affiliate program of the Alpari Company, please contact us.

We will analyze your traffic sources and other traffic indicators, and help you increase your conversion.

When, if your traffic remains not targeted, but you do not contact us for advice, we will be forced to conclude, that you have no desire for effective cooperation. In this case, Your affiliate account will be closed.

Sincerely,

Компания «Альпари»

I work with the Alps around 2 years, and this is the first time I receive such a letter. Sam tone, categorical manner and threat plunge into a state, when there is a feeling, that they want to throw you. I wrote my claims on Skype of the partner department:

[15:02:19] Stetsko Dmitry: this is how you get rid of partners?
[15:02:34] Stetsko Dmitry: Do you think, which will increase the credibility of the company?
[15:03:36] Stetsko Dmitry: You know, that I have a target blog, and then, that clients are in no hurry to open accounts with Alpari — it's my fault? Take better care of your reputation and trading conditions, get rid of execution delays, проскальзываний, requotes
[15:04:32] Stetsko Dmitry: And then, comes out, someone is to blame, that your profit is falling. Yet again, since my commission is from 500 to 2500 US dollars means, that you are not at a loss, so don't send me such letters.
[15:04:40] Stetsko Dmitry: Waiting for an answer
[15:07:15] Stetsko Dmitry: The impression is made, that you want to get rid of the obligation to pay a commission to partners
[15:07:41] Stetsko Dmitry: Get a bad online reputation with such a policy.. You have a lot of competitors

Half an hour of waiting did not bring any result and I climbed into the forum, and there was already a message from another outraged partner Vladdddd. Then the messages poured down one by one. Everyone was unhappy and everyone saw in this a threat and instability of partnerships..

And some received such letters, even without any domains.

Yours:

Received this letter too, although I have not registered a single domain in the LC. I am waiting for comments from the administration!

Well, other comments from the guys, some of which are in the rating of traders' blogs
ForexSpeculator:

The same received a similar letter. It looks like it was sent to ALL partners and no one is there traffic (target or not) did not analyze. This is either the unsuccessful work of the managers of the partner department of the company, or an attempt to get rid of partners. In any case, we are waiting for a response from the administration of the company.. But somehow it smells bad of scam.

Hours later 3-4 there was a message from Rosenberg:

respectable partners!
This newsletter was intended only for partners with a zero conversion rate, however, it was sent to a larger base due to a technical failure.
Nevertheless, letter sent 28.02.13 not aimed at tightening nuts or tightening conditions, but encourages partners to audit traffic sources together, what we are ready to help you. We, same as you, focused on effective work and fruitful cooperation.
With this text, we would like to draw your attention to the quality of traffic sent to our resource and try to jointly increase the conversion rate.
The company is not going to close your affiliate account, if you are actively involved in attracting, and your traffic is of high quality.
We encourage you to collaborate more meaningfully and closely to achieve better results and increase turnover..

We apologize to those partners, who actively attract customers and send effective and convertible traffic to the site.

I was later answered on Skype, that there was an error and apologized.

Generally, it was a glitch, although an unpleasant aftertaste remained. Вспомнилось, how in the late Brokaw the database of client emails was once leaked, after which the people began to receive spam, and also in IBCapital they sent letters with an offer of bonuses on the Broko client base, who were surprised, by receiving bonus cards on your home! адреса.

What can you say — БДИ!

Regarding assistance in promoting, then I don't need her, I gave it up a year ago, because no webmaster will burn their keys and requests, on which the site moves, everything is quite simple here — you need to understand a little about SEO and look for keys with low competition or offer something interesting to users, getting referrals as a result of word of mouth…

Unfortunately, payments really fall on the affiliate program at times, from which I can draw conclusions about, that the Company's reputation and trading conditions have become less competitive. Perhaps, I will just cooperate with other companies and brokers to avoid trouble.

By the way,, for clients with amounts from 5000 yeah, I recommend working with Швейцарским Банком Дукаскопи. They have professional Forex trading platforms JForex. Yet again, I also like the account manager Daniel. You can request a demo for a couple of weeks. Registered in Geneva, controlled by strict regulators and that says it all. You can read about this forex bank here
I liked the platform, интуитивно понятная, instant execution, there are different types of orders besides the standard MT4 pending orders. All in all, I recommend! It's a European bank after all, which gives the best conditions in terms of spreads, than DC, who are intermediaries, earning on the additional difference to the conditions of the broker.

Единственный минус, which catches the eye — an intuitively incomprehensible and overloaded site.

For all questions about opening an account and registering, please contact Daniel (just warn, that you are addressing from Dmitry Stetsko, blog «Zen Trading»), who will answer all your questions.
You can contact him like this:

Good luck and profits. Happy Spring, people!