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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
Some great points. My point is to first enjoy what you do AND make a profit.
"The affiliate or the end-user?" ...this is my prediction for the next year. I am willing to bet AFF and others will go 100% free and follow the lead of PlentyofFish.com or the new free version of Match.com. AFF is already "overexposed" so why even deal with the high cost of affiliates?
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As the owner of a dating program I hope you are wrong. Marcus at Plenty of Fish makes his money from adsense. Basically he is selling his free visitors to paid dating sites. I'm not sure the free model would work very well if there weren't paid dating sites to sell teh traffic to.
Marcus at Plenty of Fish wrote something interesting a few months ago:
"The problem with free is that every time you double the size of your database the cost of maintaining the site grows 6 fold. I really underestimated how much resources it would take, I have one database table now that exceeds 3 billion records. The bigger you get as a free site the less money you make per visit and the more it costs to service a visit.
We are going to start introducing some products and features to try and get some of the 10 to 20 million dollars a month my users are spending elsewhere. There is really no money in being free and we have to start experimenting with other models now or we won?t be able to compete in 3 or 4 years."