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Old 06-01-2016, 01:03 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by BigFurry View Post
Yes, and that is their decision. As any business, they are free to choose their business model.

However, you said that A) it's not profitable to have affiliates B) if you add affiliates, you are automatically losing money on the extra work C) affiliates equal tube videos.

Those things are not true.
A) Having so many people give away the product in such huge quantity. Is the biggest mistake this industry made.

B) See A

C) See A

Over the years, I have seen the harm the affiliate model has done. 1,000s of companies were unable to buy a decent product because of the cost of this model. Look around at who is left and who were the first to fall off the tree. This was in the days when if someone threw enough traffic, some would buy.

Today it needs a different approach. Maybe a few select affiliates, maybe in-house affiliates, maybe a combination. The days of having 100s of affiliates throwing traffic at a site and hoping are long gone.

Unless a company has a product that worked in 2005.
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