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Originally Posted by firequartz
As an affiliate who's been managing sites since 2004, I can tell you that every time a sponsor switched from ccBill to NATS, I lost money. I'm serious ... every time conversions were less. Always made the old hippie conspiracist in me think there are some "backend features" in NATS that they don't want affiliates to know about. I call it "The Gillette Protocol"
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I've actually seen what you're talking about first hand... in the admin stats. I can also assure you, I've seen it go the other direction as well.
Not to knock anyone doing this, this Industry is all about learning so taking the step deserves some respect. But normally what happens is, they aren't able to manage the full scale of nats, at least not at first.
The learning curve is huge, and if you don't have the team to help it will be that much more complex to setup correctly. But once a program has learned it, has it setup correctly, a nats program IS an extremely powerful and beneficial tool for the affiliates and the owner.
A great number of programs have made the switch and never went back. Statistically speaking, 100's of owners aren't going to doom themselves if it was all downhill after nats.