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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I don't mean any disrespect but let me put it this way:
When I go to the grocery store there is often someone there offering free samples. Usually it is some new product no one has heard or or something which most people don't really like. So the sampler has to be verbal and really work to get people to even try a sample. Usually the booth is empty other than the employee.
Today, however, they had snickers and milky way bars available as samples. Wouldn't you know it that poor worker was surrounded! 
This is the difference between selling paysites with samples today versus 2007. Today no one even wants the paysite content as free samples. They expect the full thing for free. Some pay but it's a fraction. Much harder. As an affiliate you have to gage this versus other opportunities.
The other part of it is this. There is someone here who has a niched paysite. They post here. Within the last two years for a while I did 1:700-1:1000 with them and made decent money. They always seemed to be a micro-manager and somewhat anti-affiliate but I let it go as the site did okay. Well then they switched from CCbill to Epoch. In doing so I was at something like 1:5000 the last time I checked. Then I see they switched to NATS and now I see they are talking of switching back to CCBill I think. The truth is I'm probably one of a dozen non-tube, non-review sites promoting them.
It's not just a question of whether something will convert now. It's a question of whether it will convert 1 year (or two years) from now and whether the program will still be around and paying. Increasingly the answer is "no, probably not". Not only that but all sorts of anti-affiliate behaviors and even flat out closing the program and stealing rebills is now acceptable. It's a very bad climate when compared to before. You can say you will be around, that you will convert, that you will always pay, that you are different, but there is no guarantee of that. You have to understand people have been claiming the same thing for the last 15 years.
Don't think it's just me. Look around. I think the affiliates have voted with their feet so to speak. The only difference is that I'm talking about it. It's really easy to get tired of adult as an affiliate these days.... very easy.
In the end you have to go where the money is. That has always been how good affiliates survived. |
My response to the "you may not be around 1,2,5 years from now argument" is this:
1. There's no gauruntees in life, so looking for long-term stability on the Internet (or even in the real world, with stores and corporations) is foolish. So if you make money for 2 years then the Program closes you're....what? You've still made money with them for 2 years. You're not married to anyone, which leads me to....
2. If the Program doesn't convert stop promoting them. How much work are we talking about here, to stop promoting a Program? Swapping out how many links, how many hours of work? Seems to me it's worth trying a Sponser like myself, willing to interact with you on and off GFY. It's not like I'm some random Program you stumbled across. Which leads me to...
3. You obviously do your research, more so than most so-called 'journalists' on GFY. You post examples of past posts, past threads, even do the almighty Google Dance and bring stats and graphs to the table. So obviously you have the ability to research PeabodyCash, to see how many affiliates make money with my content. You can see how I add a new paysite to my ever-growing MRPW Network about once every 1 1/2-2 months. You can see I'm growing, adding sites, even advertising for affiliates. I'm coming up on my 5 year anniversary and have no plans on quitting anything.
My conclusion: in the time it took for both of us to write out our arguments for and against trying a new paysite Sponser you could've inserted a few links and made a couple sales.
Maybe you're independently wealthy, maybe that's why you prefer posting to profiting.