Originally Posted by Paul Markham

We don't do trials. My overall feeling about them is not very good. Maybe we will experiment with them. But my fear is if the numbers who upgrade to a full membership are not very good it has to involve shaving to make it pay. $25 for a $5 sign up means every sign up has to upgrade or if half upgrade those who do have to stay 2 months to break even. Or you have to upsell and cross sell at a very high rate and I do not see this happening. Or it comes out of the affiliates pockets in shaving or drop out of traffic.

The new pay scheme is simply going to allocate the amount of money we budgeted on paying affiliates to the affiliates. Maybe paying 50% rev share would allow this.

Don't tell me what other programs do, because we have cross sales in the site, but they do not do well enough to justify paying $25 out for a $5 trial. If someone has any suggestions on what to offer the members that will pay this well then they are welcome to hit me up on ICQ.

But got a new idea for exit traffic that we will be trying out in the next few months. It will be for those who only want to spend $5 to $10 and it will not be included in the affiliates payouts in the beginning.

If it works then we can move it into the affiliates payment system and we Will know how much it's worth.