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Originally Posted by 12clicks
BV, let me educate YOU 
first of all, don't misrepresent how I operate. we do not email, upsell, extra sell, or in any other way touch the cross sale member. We let the recurring run and that is it.
second, since you've never cross sold you're simply in no position to state how it effects retention. you can guess at it, but you certainly have no stats to back up your claims
furthermore, cross sales help the revshare program survive in this down market. most revshare programs are small. small=less likely to survive. Now people can rail against cross sales all day long but I say more money goes into the affiliates' pocket when the program stays viable and does not go out of business. what is your cut of $0.00 in a 50/50 revshare?  |
Well, congrats that you don't email, upsell, extra sell and all that. Does that include no upsells in your members areas?
BUT you are a tad mistaken, I have experience with cross sales, as I have done them as far back as 2003, UNCHECKED cross sales that is.
BUT I only did them with reciprocating affiliates. Meaning traffic they sent they got an unchecked cross sale for one of their own sites. None of my normal affiliate traffic got the cross sale join forms.
As far as your last paragraph. You pulled that out of your ass.
What experience do you have running successful revshare sites?
I've done it for 10 years. I'd say I have plenty experience in that department. You can't say that can you?
NOW, Going back to my original post to Lauren (lets try to stick to that example) how are your cross sales on my site going to put more money in Lauren's pocket? Your logic is bullshit and biased towards your current business model.
Furthermore, it could even hurt me. Because if Lauren catches wind that I have cross sales on my site that she gets no credit for, there are 100's of other sites that she could choose from that do not. Hence I would lose an affiliate. or affiliates....
Very simple, this is not rocket science.
Your cross sales have no place on any revshare join form unless the affiliate gets credit in some way.
I'm sorry, that's just the way I do business. and I am still here going strong after 10 years and tons of changes in this biz.
Cheers,
BV