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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
100% agree.
It's always been dog-eat-dog in this biz at the end of the day. We cooperate with each other, but nobody "leads" any of us anywhere. We all run our businesses the way we want. What would a "leader" do for us? You can't get 5 of us to agree on anything.
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I think we all have individual "leaders" in our own ways.
What I mean is this...For me, I was Ampland up until Nov. of 2006. I had a LOT of traffic, and made a LOT of money. So other people would come to my sites and look at what I was promoting because they knew the quality of traffic I had and knew that if I gave up a valuable piece of real estate on the main page...it would be because it sold well. And they would emulate that. Many times we'd find the entire category pages full of galleries ripped by other sites with the affiliate codes changed. They would basically just piggyback of my learning curve.
So tgp guys had their set of "leaders".
And then paysites and programs would (and still do) talk and set up deals to make money together. (remember when ARS and MaxCash were basically just a giant circle jerk of pop up traffic on their banners back in the 1990's?) So when somebody would come up with a way to make a lot of money...everybody else wants in too. So they copy it and implement it in their biz.
So cash programs/paysites have their set of "leaders"
Same can be said for every facet....from designers to tube owners and everything in between.
Not really "leaders" but sort of "the guy who figures out a new way to make more money first"
Irregardless, they can't really do anything of course. But they can "lead" the way and the smart ones will follow and begin to tweak whatever the "leader" did to make it even better.