Today’s victor of the spam assault of my mail box Direct TV. However, it is not Direct TV that is sending all of this stuff to me, it is their affiliates. I do love affiliate marketing, Click Here, Work from Home, Need Cash, Male Enhancement, Female Enhancement, Goat Enhancement, Feeling lonely tonight, V1aGr-a, Hot teen cheerleaders doing long division in space suits…..OK you get the picture.  One affiliate of Direct TV landed a great one in my mail box today.

Today’s winner: A-One Satellite Network

It costs 42 cents here in the United States to send a standard envelope, combine that with the cost of a self adhesive labels and top it off with a self adhesive envelope you are looking at what I can guess as close to a 50 cent per piece mailing and that is without what is inside. Lets take a look…. Wow it is a great pre-printed brochure displaying all of the channels Direct TV offers. Direct TV spent a lot producing millions of these for all of their affiliates nationwide.  All of these channels this looks like a great deal, where do I sign up?  Where is the number I call or the website I go to? And what is this large blank white area taking up the back of the brochure?

I love white spaceNice Label


Ok, time to let the cat out of the bag, A-One Satellite Network, I applaud your innovation to save money by using your label on the front of the envelop you sent me, however after digging it out of my garbage can I realized that your entire cost of mailing this to me went straight to the trash.  Why are you wasting your advertising budget paying people to throw away an envelope?

Suggestion: When you become an affiliate of anyone’s selling any product, make sure you can get paid for your efforts. Companies with affiliate programs make it as easy as possible for you to make money from them, use the designated area on the already supplied creative to allow customers to call you and give you money.