Shooter, it's a long story...lol.
Washiez, I'll definitely be picking up on YNP some more as soon as a couple other things are completed. What blows me away with YNP is the recurring. To my mind, YNP should recur LESS than anything else because it's not specific, but for some stupid reason it outperforms everything else by anywhere from 7-10%. Ridiculous. :P~
ldinternet, if you don't have good luck with recurring programs I'd have to agree you shouldn't use them.
Let me give you my thoughts, though...
The reason many sponsors pay per signup is because they know the money is in the recurring. There's no getting around that fact. They aren't paying $30 a signup out of love for webmasters.
People that pay recurring do so usually for 2 reasons..they can't afford to pay per signup (not a pornmegabucks.com problem, I assure you), or they don't want to deal with the hassle of cheating webmasters, as revshare is rarely cheated. Long term, it is my firm belief you will always do better with recurring, but NOT if you are converting trial to full membership at 20%. That's just crazy...if you aren't getting 40%+, something is weird.
Having said all that, I'm open to paying $30 per trial on PMB sites. I am MORE than willing to take the recurring myself.
If there's enough interest, I'll set it up!