What about RakeTheRake affiliate program?

[rinky9888]

RakeTheRake is a poker rakeback affiliate that offers up to 60% rakeback on all the top poker rooms plus you can play for over $100K a month in exclusive promotions.

[west]

Hey guys new here but I have a question about RakeBackPartners.
So they give 4% from MGR of each new player u sign up on your rakeback site. And then they give you 1% from your players refferals. Ok. Now if I have 5 players signed on my rakeback site I get 4% from total MGR...and one of those 5 players brings an friend and signs on my rakeback site I only get 1% from him from the ttal MGR for life??

[MJ]

Those numbers aren't accurate since you can only get 3% at FTP - and at other sites you can do better than 4% anyways by going through PAS or RU. In my opinion RakebackPartners is meant for players to easily have a site to refer friends too, not for serious affiliates.

Although - I did recieve an email from RTR claiming "they are the only affiliate group who pays 3% at FTP instead of 0%" - anyones guess what that means but I do not think it is true.

[west]

Yea..thats what I've read on this forum so far. I did sign on PAS and I will try to create a rakeback site targeted to my own country/region but I have a limited budget for marketing/ads and the competion is high.

I'll try to keep it as a nice hobby project and see how it goes

[Tea Flow]

I did sign on PAS and I will try to create a rakeback site targeted to my own country/region but I have a limited budget for marketing/ads and the competion is high.

Sounds good. If you need any help both Tony and I are here to help.

[RakeTheRake]

Although - I did recieve an email from RTR claiming "they are the only affiliate group who pays 3% at FTP instead of 0%" - anyones guess what that means but I do not think it is true.

Hey MJ

That claim perhaps should have been clearer, apologies. We believed at the time after a quick search of our main competitors that we are the only affiliate who is paying players 3% for their individual referrals to FT via RakeTheRake. Obviously affiliates with white label skins through RBPartners, PAS etc, obviously do get 3%. But for individual players direct to the rakeback site we found they were paying 0%.

As for the 4% being low - we do have plans to emulate our competitors with individual percentages as and when the developers have time! (Am sure most know that feeling!). That all said, our rate is definitely lower than you can get elsewhere. But in its defence it takes into account that we spend more on promotions than our competitors so there's a partial trade off there. Also when we came up with that number it was pre FT and AP/UB cutting rates. We had worked the number out as a flat rate across all sites based on a weighting of the percentages that our competitors were paying for each room multiplied by the actual percentage of players that sign up through each room. Given the heavy weighting of some rooms in particular, the 4% flat rate across all sites was not far off that weighted rate.

[MJ]

Thanks for clarifying the %'s - at the end of the day you have a great turnkey product for casual affiliates backed by a reputable company so please understand I'm not trying to knock it or anything like that - I'm just reccomending any affiliate find the right product for them.

At one point I had startup sites on every white label, RTR PAS RU RBE and all products have strong and weak points - most of it comes down to how much technical or marketing skill a prospective affiliate has or needs anyways, when you aren't doing much volume (aka new affiliate) this trumps a % point or two anyways in my book.

I'm also probably guilty at looking at all these products through a search marketers eyes, where it takes more to compete.

[RakeTheRake]

Thanks for clarifying the %'s - at the end of the day you have a great turnkey product for casual affiliates backed by a reputable company so please understand I'm not trying to knock it or anything like that - I'm just reccomending any affiliate find the right product for them.

At one point I had startup sites on every white label, RTR PAS RU RBE and all products have strong and weak points - most of it comes down to how much technical or marketing skill a prospective affiliate has or needs anyways, when you aren't doing much volume (aka new affiliate) this trumps a % point or two anyways in my book.

I'm also probably guilty at looking at all these products through a search marketers eyes, where it takes more to compete.

Hey that's no problem at all - we didn't read any malice in your post.
As with most businesses, if you could take the best features off all the individual companies, you would have the perfect model. Then again someone will always come up with something better!

[parttimepoker]

As someone who uses a partner site (rakebacknation) to handle our rakeback, i'd absolutely recommend farming out your rakeback, especially if you're 'dabbling' with rakeback.

Building all of that stuff from the ground up is a real pain, and getting enough volume to compete with promotions of established sites is also a very tall order. I can't comment on RTR specifically, since I don't use the program, but with their rep I can't see any reason why you'd have an issue.

What you need to compare programs accurately is your true referral % on players (after expenses, etc) and their current / ongoing promotions (rake races, chases, etc). I'd assume most of the top programs are pretty close when it comes to reporting, cs and the like.