Have you ever received an email like this?

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We regret to inform you that the Commission Junction advertiser xxxx  has chosen to expire its affiliation with you effective xx-xxxx-xxxx.

If you would like to locate another advertiser in the network to partner with, login to your Account Manager (https://www.cj.com/login.jsp) and visit the Get Links tab.

Best Regards,

Client Services
Commission Junction

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If you are like me  you have probably received several of these in the last month. You join programs and try them out to see how they convert on promoting various companies and offers.

Affiliate Networks facilitate advertisers to basically pull the plug or pull the rug out from publishers at any time, wether or not they are active, sending traffic and or business. In most cases an advertiser is foolish to remove publishers from a program, unless they are doing something immoral or black hat.

Affiliate marketing has become a somewhat impersonal business, as it exists and drives revenue online, most people never meet another in the space, unless they attend one of the conferences, like Affiliate Summit or Affiliate Conference, or LinkShare, or CJU.