Originally Posted by Evil Ryan

so there is something i am not understanding with all this affiliate stuff why is it that it seems to be the standard that affiliate programs offer there webmasters a standard 50% payout on the revshare business modell even when, the program is offering up free affiliate content, hosted fhgs, hosted blogs, rss, free sites, promo tools, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.....

if a program is offering up as many things to affiliates as possible to make the sales for them, including text and scene descriptions and stuff, why are we still offering 50% on signups that are generated using these types of promotional tool?

like wouldnt it make more sense to have a sliding scale payout starting lower than 50% and actually make that payout get higher once the affiliate has prooven that they are able to make sales and market websites not just send traffic to a bunch of galleries?

i mean really, anyone can send traffic to a gallery but it takes a good sales person to sell a site, doesnt it?