I don't use the term lowering payouts, rather, increasing the money earned per dollar of payout spent. Everyone has been talking about decreasing member values and how its harder and harder to obtain profitability in the current $35-40 model that SOOO many sponsors use. We took the initiative to give our webmasters the ability to make a decision on how we should deal with this lower member value.
Rather than a straight cut of payout, manditory increase in trial price, or stop crediting certain sign ups (or worse shaving) we decided to put as many of those options in our webmasters hands. Now they have the control!
We now offer FREE trials (new tours for the free trials for all 240+ tours in the ARS portfolio) as well which at a lower rate but better conversion could make everyone a lot more money.
I'm very interested to see who else will 'take the pludge' that every major sponsor I've talked to wanted to do, or who sits idly finding 'other' ways to profit
