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Originally Posted by V_RocKs
Why would CCBILL sell? Processing is a cash cow. It is an industry much like owning a large tube. You make huge bank on very little overhead. I think you are high in that regard.
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I would suspect that the revenues are declining and they may want to focus on their other successful projects instead. Some might see being in adult in this way as a liability. I don't want to see it happen but I can see it occurring soon if it hasn't already. <tinfoil hat on>
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As for affiliates... I have switched up and now make about 1/2 of my income from ad sources I wasn't even using just 2 or 3 years ago. So for the adapt or die thing... I have definitely been adapting.
By next year I see myself making far more from selling alternate stuff, whether it be an adult pay site membership to someone else's site (popunders, sidebars, 404's, etc), dating, men's health products or web cams products than I see myself selling products with the model I used (and abused) since 2006 or so.
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It's the same here. Declining pay site revenues from affiliate programs aren't enough to maintain my income. It's still profitable but not at the levels I am used to. I have taken to other monetization methods in order to keep income up.
The problem with dating and especially cams are there are less competitors than with pay sites so an affiliate can easily get a bad deal. I've enjoyed the competition in being a pay site affiliate over the years. If I felt someone was doing me wrong there were often 100 other sponsors I could use. With cams and dating I often seem to find myself trying to choose between who is screwing me the least. At the moment I prefer to sell the traffic outright as much as I can.
At the same time let's say CCBill and Verotel went under tomorrow. That would be a huge hit to me and over half my income. I could survive but it would not be fun and I doubt I would want to keep investing much time in the affiliate pay site sales game at that point.