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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
What do you consider "raking it in"?
SpookyCash had more than 6,000 affiliates in the heyday of online adult. Most of them were the beer money guys and a lot of them got treated very poorly at conventions by wannabe ballers (and real ballers who were just mean too.) The industry drove those people out to a large extent, although obviously piracy and anti-tracking surfing are factors as well.
I appreciate the affiliates we still have, but the main area I have seen a revenue decline is in affiliate-driven sales. Affiliates are contributing less to the bottom line, but, if we were to suddenly have way more affiliates in the industry, that would be good for everyone with a solid affiliate program.
Twitter is great and obviously there were no Twitter-driven joins in 2005, but Twitter requires me to use up in-house resources making someone else rich, when they are not going to give me any affiliate split for using my content.
Good affiliates provide a lot more value than that.
Using your affiliate program to trade with other programs is also nice.
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Well said. What I'd recommend to programs is to offer payouts by CCBILL unless you're a big program with many sites. Even if you use NATS.
NATS supports this now. The affiliates have to sign up CCBILL and enter their CCBILL ID in NATS, so that NATS can create links for them, and still track stuff.
It makes a small affiliate program much more appealing, affiliates don't have to worry about reaching minimums, programs closing, and hunting down payments. While most affiliate programs mean well, shit happens.
Or the Epoch affiliate system is good too, they also merge payments for affiliates.