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Originally Posted by Publisher Bucks
If an affiliate is using the PPS business model to generate income, there is no residual revshare involved, they get their $35 payout and thats it.
IMHO at that point, the surfer / member becomes the programs / paysites to do with what they want to recoup that $35 payout and potential profit 
Revshare programs definitely didn't have a lot to do with killing the profitability of paysite sales, the vast majority of them actually offered their members enough content to keep them rebilling for several months, so long as the affiliate who sent the member did their job and pre-sold the sites members area AND content correctly / honestly.
Program owners like Bradshaw, the Bottos, DeForest's, Lightspeed, et al did way more damage to paysite profitability than most mom & pop revshare program owners  |
RE: PPS is one time income for affiliate. For sure. That's understood.
But RE: Revshare undermining affiliate's rebills by competing against the affiliate using their original subscriber can get gray quickly.
I value sponsors who, when you send your visitor to their site, and the surfer navigates to a different sponsor site, the affiliate's code still shows up in the different site's join page. And even better, when a surfer comes back to the sponsor's site the next day (using the bare domain name - no affiliate link) and the cookies are still active to keep the affiliate code in place. That's good faith business.
Affiliate cookie expiration duration used to be a thing that distinguished one sponsor from another. Where are we at these days on that?
Also re Trial Subscriptions, I seem to remember we used to be able to select No Trial join pages. A trial can be a great sales tool, IF the sponsor doesn't poach the member by offering a different deal from the trial, or the Email Subscription.