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I Give up on Decisive (7)

11-11-2014 07:20 PM #1 fishinseo ()
I Give up on Decisive

Everyday on Decisive, I start out with profit and by the end of the day all my profit is gone so I end up with a single digit ROI or negative ROI.

I try to run the live reports and blacklist, but after a campaign has been active for about three days, the report will just not load. So I watch my ROI dwindle and watch the little circle of death spiral for hours while I am helpless to kill placements.

Affiliate marketing is freakin frustrating. I have had to pause 3 great campaigns because I cant get the reports to load to kill placements. Is the trick there to create the same campaign over and over every two days?

11-11-2014 08:53 PM #2 Mr Green (Administrator)

Haha don't worry affiliate marketing is frustrating in parts but things smooth out after a while.

On decisive you definitely don't need to launch new campaigns on a daily basis. I've had campaigns that have lasted a couple of months.

One thing that works for me in terms of getting reports to load is clicking on "today" multiple times until it loads. Or the tab of the specific report you want to load like "sites" or "apps" usually it will load the report after clicking the link 5 times or so.

11-11-2014 10:26 PM #3 zeno (Administrator)

The live reporting issues is really not your fault and unacepptable. No idea why it's been nearly a year of people complaining about this.

That being the case, why not day-part? If using a tracker in the middle, and your profit drops throughout the day, surely you can find the times where you are actually making money and focus on those.

11-13-2014 01:04 PM #4 fishinseo ()

I finally let my funds run out of Decisive, so it is back to square one with finding a traffic source. All my campaigns have gone from positive to negative because of new bad placements filtering in. One campaign has one whole page of sites with $.33 - $.07 CPCs and it took me 10 hours to get it load enough to block one site.

6 campaigns and not one report for a campaign over 2 days will load. The only way I can see Decisive working is to create a campaign and clone it every two days.

Total suckage. I had my first successes in AM, now I have nothing.

11-13-2014 08:12 PM #5 quinnn (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by fishinseo View Post
I finally let my funds run out of Decisive, so it is back to square one with finding a traffic source. All my campaigns have gone from positive to negative because of new bad placements filtering in. One campaign has one whole page of sites with $.33 - $.07 CPCs and it took me 10 hours to get it load enough to block one site.

6 campaigns and not one report for a campaign over 2 days will load. The only way I can see Decisive working is to create a campaign and clone it every two days.

Total suckage. I had my first successes in AM, now I have nothing.
Bro, why not just make a new campaign and only include sites/apps that you KNOW are working?

11-13-2014 08:29 PM #6 fishinseo ()

Quote Originally Posted by quinnn View Post
Bro, why not just make a new campaign and only include sites/apps that you KNOW are working?
I have one and it is at 35% ROI, but only spends about $30 a day.

11-13-2014 09:06 PM #7 fabian (Member)

I truly don't get what the issue is with Decisive. I had to quit as well and asked for a refund.

I've been involved in all sorts of web projects, small, big and SUPER huge (50MM user deployments) and quite frankly I can safely say that reports loading the way they do on Decisive is synonymous of an system architecture disaster they have going on there.

At the end of the day, how can you trust the data if it's having all sorts of issues getting it?

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