KTechGrind

My two cents ... I too would love to see Serif offer an affiliate program but when you think about it from a business standpoint it might be difficult to do that without changing the present model. How much are you willing to pay for major upgrades? Some of us might say, "the discounted sale price that Serif offers every year on the product", some might say, "nothing because that is why I left Adobe". I was a hard-core Abode user for years. Cloud everything ... money in, money out to Adobe and then more money out to Adobe. As much as I would like an affiliate program (AP) with Serif, what could they truly offer under the present model? Price of the application? Wait ... if they do that then they make no money on the sale of the product because we buy once and upgrade free for life. I adopted the entire line of Serif products in early 2018 and haven't looked back. I locked myself up for a weekend with Affinity Photo to start and learned it inside and out. Along the way, I have learned even more tricks outside of the core design use. Like Photoshop, you can use Affinity to develop outside of the box. I have done that same process with all of the other applications as well. I have never really had a need to come to the forum for app advice because of the way I go about learning it but I was brought here for the first time with a link talking about an affiliate program. Those of us who want the AP are not necessarily "newbies", many of us are just the new realm of business and content creators who want to maximize our earning potential. It doesn't mean that we want recommend or use the Serif products because when a product is good ... you use it. When a product is great ... you use it and tell everyone you know about it. Serif can be happy with either of those to survive in a market that has a Gorilla application pack that is so big their flagship application has become a verb. As a creator and a long-time user (in software years anyway) of Serif products, I am content to "Photo it", "Designer it" and "Publisher it", not get paid from Serif to do it and still suggest it to people. Serif will keep producing, making it better and better to compete and sometimes even surpass the Gorilla and I will keep downloading my free upgrades. That being said ... SERIF ... if you start charging us for major upgrades ... better have that Affiliate Program in play ... lol! Cheers! "Tech is a Grind! Keep It Simple!" Ken