@dhouston - Can you give us more insight as to why a) the affiliate program didn't work and b) the referral program worked / what you mean by "2 sided referral program"?
im assuming affiliate is where payment is in the form of $ and to non-users who promoted dropbox and referral is payment of more storage on dropbox (ie- 250 mb per referral more) to actual users. Do you think a mix of the two would have worked well ie- payment of actual $ instead of the 250mb, BUT to actual users.
If so that is a brilliant idea but it should absolutely be more prevalent of their homepage.
I specifically didn't use their service because I think that going out to tell people "you should use this service, it is great and free" and then profit from it wrong (I don't have a problem with money but I want to keep my money and friends separate).
The thing is most people would still recommend it even if there was no incentive (I know I would), it is indeed "great and free". Come to think of it, I didn't take advantage of the referral system yet and I have recommended it two at least a dozen people I know.
Also I think its a very silly reason not to use Dropbox.
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@dhouston - Can you give us more insight as to why a) the affiliate program didn't work and b) the referral program worked / what you mean by "2 sided referral program"?
im assuming affiliate is where payment is in the form of $ and to non-users who promoted dropbox and referral is payment of more storage on dropbox (ie- 250 mb per referral more) to actual users. Do you think a mix of the two would have worked well ie- payment of actual $ instead of the 250mb, BUT to actual users.
I was curious about the 2 side referral too, I think what it means is both the referrer and new user get 250 MB's of additional storage.
If so that is a brilliant idea but it should absolutely be more prevalent of their homepage.
I specifically didn't use their service because I think that going out to tell people "you should use this service, it is great and free" and then profit from it wrong (I don't have a problem with money but I want to keep my money and friends separate).
The thing is most people would still recommend it even if there was no incentive (I know I would), it is indeed "great and free". Come to think of it, I didn't take advantage of the referral system yet and I have recommended it two at least a dozen people I know.
Also I think its a very silly reason not to use Dropbox.
True, I should have typed I didn't use their _referal_ system, I am indeed a happy dropbox user.
Sorry for the confusion.
yes, that is what it means