Originally Posted by Rochard

My god, are people this fucking stupid? "All these programs are closing".

Take a fucking look around you. We are in the worst recession we've seen in our lifetime. Businesses are closing left and right. Up the street from me is a huge business plaza with only two businesses in it, and next to that is a half built condo complex that has a few units built and two dozen concrete pads before the company went under. The Wendy's up the street closed, so did Strings, and Chilli's.

Programs aren't closing because of the affiliate model. They are closing because they were barely making money before the recession hit, and once it did hit with ratios going up they just couldn't afford to stay in business. Then add in a bunch of companies who's entire business model was xsales, and well, it comes as no big surprise.

I run a blog network and much to my surprise my sales have shot up 30% this month alone. (Although granted, I've been expanding a lot.) The affiliate model isn't dieing, it's just becoming a lot more difficult to make money.