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Originally Posted by Magnetron
Let's say for example you have 500 little guys like me earning you a share of anywhere between $1K to $5K each per year per program.
Your take for the year is $500,000 to $2,500,000 minus operating costs.
Now when you have 490 little guys like me and 10 mega user uploaded Tubes - we make less for you ( because we are starved of quality SE traffic ), but this is compensated by you not having to pay us a share for any sales you made in the bypass.
However, you make less sales overall because you devalued your content. You lose out on further sales by alienating most of the potential female consumers through association with these mega Tubes that serve up mysoginistic ads for the male attendees.
The ads in general are annoying. The Live Jasmin or whatever pops are annoying. Its an obnoxious experience similar to that of being skimmed about on TGPs, which is why TGP ratios were always lackluster compared to ..... let's say .... Review Sites.
The surfers that found their way into the Mega tubes via searches for your stuff in particular now have immediate access to free stuff from similar sponsor channels. There is even more free stuff being served up without permission, including your own content that you may or may not have to pay someone to track down and DMCA ( depends on how many Interns you have ).
In the short term, your guaranteed lotsa traffic from a few sources for X-Y amount of revenue.
In the long term, your guaranteed the same amount of traffic for X+Y amount of revenue - provided you make affiliates adhere to a simple set of rules. A) Don't give away tons of free shit or you are fired B) Don't annoy your surfers with certain ads or you are fired C) Don't pummel us with blind traffic or you are fired D) Don't promote us on sites that have poor ratios like TGPs or you are fired.
But you never made affiliates follow any such rules.
FemjoyCash used to insist that affiliates give away only a few FHGs at a time per site. Now FemjoyCash themselves give away tons of Joymii videos on the Tubes.
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This is an excellent post - and no, I'm not stalking your threads/posts, this will be my last comment on this subject for awhile. In theory - 450 'little guys' vs. major tubes - is SPOT ON except for one problem: there AREN'T 450 "little guys" anymore.
Many smaller affiliates have left the game - ask Signupdammit, he's got all the facts and figures to support this claim - and those that are left have such limited resources, in both traffic and current income levels, that many are unwilling or afraid to try new sponsers in fear of losing what little they have left to cling to.
THIS post - your excellent point here - is what I was trying to say in shorthand in other threads: show me how to replace the traffic/sales with many "little guys" and I would do it. You did show me a way, and well articulated, but sadly there are very few affiliates left like yourself.
I do wish you great success!!