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Originally posted by Lenny2
I think the topic is off the mark here.
Why do you assume paysite owners depend on affiliates "so much".
There are lots of paysite owners out there who don't even have an affiliate program.
Also, all of the "big" programs don't need affiliates at all. Sure affiliate traffic is nice because its traffic they wouldn't otherwise have, but they're doing hundreds if not thousands of joins every day on their own traffic so if all their affiliates died tomorrow in a nuclear explosion the big programs wouldn't have to fold.
Now if you're referring to the noobs who buy a content CD and a $100 tour from a designer in the Phillipines and then come to the boards and beg people to promote them..........well then you're talking about noobs who won't be here in 6 months, and they're not worth talking about.
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I phrased it wrong, I don't think programs depend on affiliates, but it amazes me at the length some program will go for affiliates....
I could join a program right now and not have to pay for a thing and make a nice chunk of change, because everything is provided to me for free to promote them....not one start up cost at all....with this type of business model you don't make much off an affiliate after expenses...but yet I see program come here all the time and BEG for affiliates and offer them ANYTHING they want, and I just think that is obsurd...your paying them, and giving them the world? all this for around $8 a sale after your expenses....wtf?
yeah, add that $8 up 1000 times and there is a nice amount of money per day....sure, but if you learned to do what your affiliates making 1000 sales a day are doing, now THAT is money...