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Old 09-30-2011, 03:43 PM  
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
Lots of people (including me) have been doing this idea on our non-affiliate tours all along. And yes, it works.

The trade-off for me has always been this: How many sales do I want to make to OTHER people (cams, VOD, etc.) off of my non-affiliate/type-in tour as opposed to making for myself?

That's where the trick to it is. Yes, you want to sell SOMETHING to as many people as you can. But you don't want to lose a FULL sale to someone who came to your site looking for a specific thing and have them lured away by somebody else's shit that you're advertising and only get a percentage of.

It's a tricky thing to do.
I think if you are a one man shop with limited resources you definitely have to be careful where your time and money is spent. However if you have a way of buying $5000 of traffic and only make $1000 on it to your sites but $4000 from external sales I'd take that in a heartbeat for the free exposure the brand gets. You do that 20 times and the exposure and experience (of selling that traffic) really elevates your site/product.
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