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Hi Choker,
I'm a little surprised at your attitude. Why would you call anyone a shithead for calling anything unfair?
Don't get me wrong - your idea could be good, but in my opinion you have left our a few important parameters to your offer. In particular, you left out (or I didn't notice) the keywords you will use, the sources of the traffic, the quality of the traffic (Are these hits from qualified customers? If so how do you define qualified?) What about Geo traffic? Language perhaps?
Another important parameter is time. Customers to a chat site would never spend money on the very first visit (and if they did we might consider it fraud). We have found that on average it takes people about 15 or so log-ins before finally committing to making a purchase. How much time are you allowing for sites to convert your traffic?
Next, exactly what are you looking for as far as a commission goes? What percentage? PPS or Rev Share?
A few months ago we gave up on our own affiliate program simply because affiliate costs (Commissions + Support) could not compete with carefully selected pay per click traffic. PPC is easy to manage, and works incredibly well for us, and is much cheaper than any affiliate program.
You and I have done business before but the traffic ==> content matchup didn't seem to work out well for us because we didn't see a noticeable increase in sales. However, I think your offer is really interesting and I would like to take you up on it, but with a couple of requests.
Would you be willing to:
- Provide quality, targeted, North American, qualified traffic
- Limit the clicks to about 2500 per day (giving initial visitors time to sign up)
- Do this for NO COMMISSION?
In place of a commission, I would be willing to agree to purchase 1.5 Million clicks worth of PPC traffic from you over 3 months as long as it was the same filtered traffic described above as long as a percentage of the traffic you sent "converted" (ie, was a good match up for our content).
What percentage of conversion would you think would be fair for this test?
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