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Old 11-08-2008, 11:57 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by BigPimpCash View Post
Had this conversation on another board and they disagreed with that idea... they felt the more the galleries were out there the better chance of viral marketing... and as the galleries are low def pics and video as opposed to whats in the site, the real potential members would still join...

Anyone else got any opinions on this, especially those affiliates who were saying they wouldnt promote a programme without a password protected area... ???
There is one big reason surfers become members. The quality/quantity of the content in the site. If you open up the affiliates area to surfers you give him access to a lot of YOUR content in one style and theme. Diminishing the reason for him to sign up.

Or by having too little content there you tell him how small the site it. On the other hand if you have as much content in the affiliates area as we do you give him a great reason to sign up.

We opened the affiliates area to surfers to show them the size of the site and we disabled all the links so they could not get to the actual content. Win - Win.

But just thought of this. With the new retro site opening soon and the way the fans love to post on retro boards it might help to give them lots of galleries. So it also depends on the content.

As usual there are different answers to the same question.
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