First off thanks 12Clicks for an interesting thread
12Clicks how many of the haters who have posted in this thread bothered to ask you for a look at the members areas of your sites?
As you are buying Pre checked cross sales retention is where your profit lies so its in your own interest to keep them rebilling.
I have taken the time to look at these sites and while there not the best members area I have ever seen there from being bad or lacking in real content.
People get the facts and become informed or just keep playing keyboard hero and make less and less.

good point

most revshare programs that pay over 60% usually split the 14 plus or minus card fees.
plus are notorious for upsells in and out and via email.

if it was 80% of the membership then the webmaster is barely making anything of that sale but will make it after he upsells that customer

do the math

-80% aff
-14% ccbill
= 6% left for sponsor

then has to pay for content and server and a whole bunch of other shit out of that 6%

6% of 29.95

yah that's a good business plan

should really push that one hard lol

so bake

answer honestly

i don't know if you push any revshare sites or not
but if you did
and you had the option to have or not to have upsells on the join form
which would you choose, to have cross sales? or not?

TAKE IN MIND YOU GET NO CREDIT FOR THE CROSS SALE

You will be doing just as a favor and to make sure I make more money and stay alive.

Couldn't slim margins work just fine with heavy volume? A lot of businesses operate on slim margins based on high volume. I'm sure that's a factor in high PPS payouts too. I don't know any 70% or higher revshare programs myself. Do those exist?

You forgot, exits, upsells, typeins, inhouse traffic, inhouse xsales, and everything related to webmasters, 404's, 301's, pw traffic, cancel emails out the ass, and an mixture of payout amounts.

Volume is god.... content is king, volume is god.

Major oil companies are earning a relatively modest 8.7 percent profit margin, the top 10 major public oil companies have sold some $1.5 trillion worth of crude, pocketing profits of more than $125 billion.

i have seen them, can't recall any, do a search for 70% revshare on gfy and see what happens,

i didn't forget it doc, geez dude, that's my whole point

they (robbies 80% example) most definitely will have to resort to upsells (cutting out the affiliate in most cases) in order to make a profit

I'm sure any real affiliates who can send real sales (EG 10 per day) can discuss the issue of cross sales with the sponsor and either ask for higher % or a join form without the cross sales attached.
There are not the big affiliates left that there once was and as we all know the pie is shrinking , Affiliates who only do a few scattered sales here and there really don't have enough say to make any difference to cross sales.
I can not find any real evidence that pre checked cross sales make any measurable difference to rebills on the main site and if you can provide me with some I will view with interest.
The affiliate always has his say if he just choses not to promote any sponsor because he believes cross sales are hurting him.
I like to see people judge this on real facts and not half assed assumptions.

you skated my question

do you want pre checked cross sells that you don't get credit for on your ccbill join forms? yes or no

i see you have ftv in your sig

do they have pre-checked cross sales on their join forms that you do not get credit for?
i haven't checked but it would really surprise me if they did.

edit, all my affiliates are small, no single one of them sends me 10 sales a day. that ok by me though, would much rather have 1000 small guys than 10 big ones

I didnt qualify so fuck fuck fuck

Since you have to send 10 sales a day to be a "real affiliate"

Does that mean if a guy sends me 9 sales a day he's a fake?

OK, my last post here for tonight, i just want to make sure i recap and have 12clicks advice right for the gfy readers who need cliff notes.

I put some of 12clicks pre-checked cross sales on my join forms, and not give credit to my affiliates. This will help me make more money.

But since it's obviously not fair to my affiliates 12clicks advice is to raise the affiliate payout.

Ok so now there goes your extra money from the cross sells.

Who's making out in this deal?

12clicks :-)

If FTV was to add prechecked cross sales to there signup page I wouldnt mind at all.
These days I dont do 10 sales per day with them like I have done in the past but I still make good money with them I also didnt mind when they added dvd sales and upsells to there other sites from there members area.
I dont mind people making money infact I believe its a good thing.
And no I dont think anyone who only does 9 sales a day is fake and you trying to twist this post to meet your ends.
I used the number 10 just as a number nothing more , Valued affiliates can always bargin more regardless of what numbers they do.

Can you show me any measurable difference to rebills by having prechecked cross sales?

hmmmm, now that its morning and most of the trolls are back to work and school, I'll recap for the business people what BV's position is.

program owners should never do anything without giving it all to the affiliates. THAT way, there's no threat to the ever shrinking market of 50/50 revshare.

Don't be tricked by 12clicks original post. Even though it was factual, BV's business model is different so 12clicks business model is BAD!
Everyone get that?

oh, and whatever you revshare guys do, DO NOT offer your members 60% with a cross sale option! that too is BAD! (because again, its not what BV wants)

and you know, if its not what BV wants, well then it couldn't be good for anyone! :1orglaugh

wow, one of the true old timers shows his face!

that is one awesome rebill

Good Morning,

I'm not in business to make it good for anyone. Just me, my customers and my affiliates. Not 12 clicks.
Your plan leaves the affiliates out of the loop.

Your plan puts not one extra cent in the affiliates pocket.

and if i was to raise my payouts to make it fair (as you suggest) then the only person making out is you.

sorry, i'm not falling for it

if your plan is so great and doesn't affect retention then why don't you show us and prove it.

fact is you haven't been doing it long enough to have any real stats worth showing.

why don't you have some of the ccbill programs doing your cross sales come in here and speak in your behalf?

are they afraid to show their face?

[QUOTE=Bake;14757300]If FTV was to add prechecked cross sales to there signup page I wouldnt mind at all.
QUOTE]

yah right, if you had a choice we all know what the answer would be

i mentioned the number 10 because you said that if an affiliate didn't send 10 sales a day to a program that his opinion didn't matter
that kind of rubbed me the wrong way, sorry

just because the business model is over your head doesn't make it a bad thing.
its just not for you. I understand your unhappiness with me giving your competition a leg up but you'd be surprised at how many people understand the business model. :winkwink:

hahahaha.

thats a good argument for the rabble but ANYONE can show a long term customer. I've got customers rebilling since just about the day we opened the doors.
And please, I work with some of the biggest names in this industry because I know EXACTLY what I'm doing.
nice try though.

I don't allow anyone to speak on my behalf.
you're easily handled all by myself.
What would the point be of them coming in here so you could treat them like you did Bake?
please......you know nothing about pre-checks. as long as you think your guess work holds the same weight as other's experiences, you're not likely to stir anyone's interest but mine.

BV, I'm to lazy to quote :)

I agree, I guess I just choose not to promote them. I do check every program (not every site) but I do re-check overtime and look at different sites.

In my opinion, it sucks to get tricked by a program, pushing say a low paying pps or any revshare or any program that didn't have them and now does - without notice. It sucks to pull links and redirect traffic across lots of domains. Even more so when they could change back.

A program like 12clicks, as long as you look you know what you are getting so the choice is yours if you want to push him or not. He isn't tricking you, hiding anything, or going to add anything that will shock you.

So many revshare programs used to be clean, and now have xsales without notice - at least with 12clicks he isn't lying to you.

Doc,

This isn't about me or anyone pushing his site in a normal way.
12clicks wants to put his cross sales on my sites ccbill join forms and other CCBill sites like mine.
The affiliates would not get any credit. only me (sponsor) would make the extra money.
I do not think this is right for obvious reasons.

12clicks suggests that I raise the revshare payout percentage to compensate them.

So what benefit is that to me? none, so i make a few extra bucks from 12clicks cross sales that gets redistributed back to affiliates if i raise the payout.

But now the surfer not only has a membership to my site, he has a membership to 12clicks site or sites (i think he puts 2 cross sales) but i could be wrong on that.

So logic tells me a surfer with 3 memberships is less likely to stay with all 3 than if he had just one.

I understand this business model perfectly and your board tactics are not going to work on me. I'm not some punk kid. I'm probably older than you, not a fake nic, and have been here doing the revshare thing for a long long time.

Granted you have made way more money than me, but the first site I started with is still going after 10 years. That means something.

Why don't you tell us who these big well respected names are who you are working with already?

Why hide them? What's to hide? Do they not want to be in the limelight because they know what they are doing is wrong?

If it's so great it would be in your best interest to bragg on these "Big Name Programs" right? What's the big deal if it's so great?

I think the real reason is they want to fly below the radar as not to bring attention to themselves from their affiliates or prospective affiliates. :2 cents:

its amazing how little this guy understands anything beyond his little 50/50 world.

and twice as funny watching him consistently slip in lies to bolster his argument.

what lies am i slipping in, please explain???

what's wrong with my 50/50 world? Is my 50/50 world a bad thing?
If it's so bad why are you trying to get on all the revshare join forms then?

"Absolutely entitled"? A program owner can do what they like, but it may end up losing them affiliates. Like it or not, "revshare" in this industry means a splitting of income (and sometimes the processing fees - you're wrong there). You can try to make up a new definition for it, but if you started "sharing" more fees with affiliates you'd lose many of them fast. A prechecked cross sale could amount to the same sort of thing. :2 cents:

what tactic is that?
pointing out that you've now made over 10 posts in a thread you know zero about?
you know zero about pre-checked cross sales and have implied several things that are untrue about how I operate.
if there's anyone with a "board tactic" its you.

it sure does and I've never said a bad thing about it. infact, I've never said a bad thing about you until you came here, into MY thread and started saying bad things about me. bad things that you can't back up with anything other than "I've been doing revshare for 10 years"

as soon as you tell me who all your largest affiliates are, I'll tell you who mine are.
(you're not very good at these "board tactics" are you, friend?

well again, what you think really doesn't mean much here.
keep grasping at straws. I've got all day.:1orglaugh

12 you are desperately in need of a Dale Carnegie course. You made a pretty good statement and its gone down from there. Ive also read this same thing on 2 other boards and you got into fights. I'm not a genius but if this keeps happening its time to look at ones approach. Also if the little people don't matter why do you keep going back and forth with them?

the latest that you "might be wrong about" I don't put 2 cross sales on anyone's join form. again, you're clueless and the fact that you have to go here shows your desperation.
no different than me saying,"I might be wrong but I think BV shaves."
I don't understand why you keep going there if you're so right about all this.
well, actually, I do.:1orglaugh

wrong again there, sailor.
I want to be on EVERYONE'S join forms.

did you just call BV little?

I can't help it if posters drag a good thread into the gutter with their half truths and guesses.
BV doesn't like Xsells. we've heard that ad nauseum. However, he keeps tossing out false statements about how I operate. I don't tolerate that.

No that seems to be your tone. That they are all beneath you. Actually I have alot of respect for what bv has done and does. Ive watched this now on three boards. Its like watching a train wreck over and over. Also tennis only works if you hit the ball back. And if your clients that matter to you know your level of integrity then no one can drag anything down to the gutter unless you are willing to feed the fire going back and forth.

Just as a note, I think with both of you using ccbill, I think you can now credit your webmasters with the cross sales produced to 12clicks. You don't have to have them pre-checked. I don't know the exact details of everything on this.

The question sounds like it should be, do you want to make the money now or wait 3-6 months? It's the PPS vs Revshare idea, it's what xsales do for PPS. They cover the gap of loss. Or you play the entire xsale game, taking them in and dishing them out, using volume to cover the gap. It takes 3-5 xsales to be worth the value of a real join.

If you do 100 webmaster/inhouse sales a day, a xsale program has to do 300-500 sales a day to be worth the normal program. At this level, it's a choice of which game do you want to play. Both aren't easy.

You would make more by adding xsales, but it isn't going to be something that is mind blowing. You could take xsales - and it would add to your member base, but the money earned isn't squat until you add volume.


So in my opinion, if you are able to keep your head above the float with no issues now, then don't add or take xsales. Don't listen to anyone else but yourself, partners, ect.. I just feel, if you aren't going to play the entire game - then don't play it all, keep your focus.

Mr ethics :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :error:error:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Tony, let me let you in on a little secret.
business people aren't interested in reading 4 pages of back and forth arguing.
They'll read my post, maybe even the entire first page. once you get a handful of trolls in the thread like the smoothjs, notoldschools, etc. readership among the biz owners drops off to nothing.
I'm now in the "reply to keep the page up top" mode.
I mean, not that I'd ever imply that you didn't already know this.
:winkwink:

I thought I saw a ccbill join form posted in another thread here with 2 of your cross sales. I did not want to take the time to search for it so I my exact words were quote:

"But now the surfer not only has a membership to my site, he has a membership to 12clicks site or sites (i think he puts 2 cross sales) but i could be wrong on that."

Get your facts straight, you're losing the battle.

Maybe I should just shut the fuck up and instead encourage all ccbill sponsors to add your cross sales.
Then maybe they will lose some of their decent affiliates and they will look for more honest partners to do business with.
:2 cents:

I agree.

I read your first post and immediately knew what your motive was.

how come none of your cross sell clients aren't posting if it's so great????

they afraid to let everyone see who they are?

no, they don't want to wallow in your mud.

are we up to 20 of your posts in a thread about pre-checks? something you have no experience with?

who wants to come in here for that?

I told you I have experience with cross sales and the fact that they are pre checked or not has nothing to do with the effect they have on revshare affiliates.

You know dick all about revshare. That's why I am here.

I'm protecting my business model.

What initially triggered me to post here is because it sounded like Loryn was duped by your bullshit. and I like her and what she does for stray animals. Someone has to wear the white hat.

I wonder where she went?

She's probably mad you duped her and embarrassed to show her face to me again after I have been so generous to her over the years donating money to her for her work she does helping stray cats.

ahahahahahaha.
lets just leave this quote out here on its own genius!:1orglaugh

to further point out how out of your depth you are, Loryn works with cross sales. she wasn't duped by anything.
you're completely clueless.