Surely there's a better way?

One thing that's really started to pee me off is the mountain of merchant emails I have to trawl through in the morning before I get down to some serious work. Merchant emails are now seriously hindering my efficiency!

I'd easily get over a hundred emails a day. There are a couple that really get on my tits with their constant communications - I'm sure you know who they are!

My recommendation, something I'd dearly love to see is an option next to a merchant application for us affiliate to choose to receive emails when:

1) The merchant it put on hold, pending removal or removed from the network;
2) Notifications about payments (late, batch issues, etc)
3) Merchant offers - sales on products, promotions, we're in the press sort of stuff

Affiliates should be able to pick and choose which notifications they get. They should also be able to choose a different email address from the network-specific emails, for example being emailed your self-billing invoice etc.

I understand that networks are under pressure to get as many affiliates to be active on a programme as possible, but's its starting to wear very thin!

Ideally all broadcasts should be kept within the system so affiliates can go in and search for news about a particular merchant, product or industry. Then if I start a new site about a product I can go and get a list of all the offers.

If there's a techie out there, you could automatically post them to a site? Hey Matt, isn't this an opportunity for A4U?

Right, off to read my many buy.at and TD emails. If I'm still here in the morning can someone put the rubbish out?