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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So explain why and where I'm wrong. It's easy to make a clueless statement like yours but explaining why it tougher.
70% to Freeones
5% for marketing and tools
10-15% to billing
10% for hosting.
10% for content and site.
Plus offices, staff, equipment, overheads.
If Freeones traffic is so good and profitable they should already be on a level that's above 60%. But that's the stupidity of this whole situation. The programs converting at 1-200/500 might just say  and leave Quashe with more sites converting at 1-500/1000. That will soon screw the extra 10%.
Or a few more affiliates who see who Freeones are promoting might do the same, ask for an extra 10%. Where does all this extra money come from?
Yes the members. Go figure their reaction. |
Well Paul, if you ever had a good site you'd know that FreeOnes traffic converts at like 1:200 on a good day.
This isn't about "needing" another 10% it's simply about wanting another 10% and quite frankly most sponsors can cope with it considering the amount of specifically targeted traffic that FreeOnes is sending.
Surfers really won't notice a difference, the only thing that may come in response to this is some shady programs shaving them a bit more to be able to profit from the lower 10% but the real good programs will likely not even add another 10% on top since FreeOnes is already making enough money from them to begin with and, even if they did -- they would be able to cope with it but at a smaller margin then before.
You're right though, the cost for the sponsors are way up there in comparison to the cost for FreeOnes operating their sites but, you're missing the point. FreeOnes is the top sponsor for many many affiliate programs out there and even if they had to give up another 5% or 10% they'd still be making good money from this traffic.
But yeah, keep on trying to turn it in to something harmful for "clients" lol ... why don't you just go to bed man it's late anyway.