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Originally Posted by alan-l
I'm taking this as a biz discussion. First of all, those who have loads of sales don't care about conversions. Hey, they don't even have the need for "creative spam". Therefore, they won't tell anyone "sign up to my aff program and you will make 1:1000" (or 1:10000 or 1:n for that matter).
As for me being happy about how you do biz... honestly, I couldn't care less. I gave you some advice and this is not the first time. It may be a good advice. Maybe not. You do whatever you want. But my happiness is not related to you or your sites. Philosophically speaking, not even related to my own sites.
Besides, I've the feeling neither you, nor me, nor any other aff program owner is doing this for fun, or a big good heart, or whatever. YOU, ME and the NEIGHBORS are doing this for money, not because of our good hearts, so cut the crap, OK?
And about my paysites... let's assume I don't have any. Not of anyone's business. Does it make a difference? Whenever I decide to discuss about my sites, then I'll tell you.
Again: I made you a question, by your answer I assume you prefer 1 sale on 1:1 rather than 100 sales on 1:2000. Since I can't believe it, I'll ask you again: do you prefer money or statistics? It's a simple question, it's a simple answer as well but depending on that answer your sites will make you shitloads of money... or beautiful stats.
fwiw, just my 
PS: if that helps, my conversion stats are way better than yours... and I'm always trying to increase my profits |
I would prefer 1000 sales to 1 sale, the answer is obvious. But that has nothing to do with my thread?
I'm constantly told by people, our content is saturated, it has to "exclusive", teens don't convert and tours have to be like the other 10,000 other tours out there.
So I do things my way and with our non exclusive teen content, and a tour that is nothing clever we get good ratios in a major Niche. Some in the Micro or Sub Niches will laugh at our conversion rates and retention, but they will not get the traffic we get.
What this thread is about is it does not have to be done the way 10,000 other sites tell you it has to be done to succeed. Our traffic will continue to grow I'm sure and one day we will make the decision of whether it's time to close the content store and go the route everyone else goes. Then carry on in our own way.
Others can read it and think about what route they want to take.
And you pose questions, which I answered, so here is one for you.
Would affiliates prefer a site doing 1000 sign ups a day at a ratio 1-10,000 or a site doing 300 a day at a ratio of 1-365?
Glad you work on your ratios as well.