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When the industry started moving to "all these sites for one price" they effectively screwed the affiliates in the ass pretty hard, IMHO, and here is why:
Let's say I promote a bunch of different sites in a program. Well, once a horny surfer willing to use a CC to join has joined 1 of those sites, he is 100% useless to me ever again for anything in that program, because he will have seen it all. This is doubly so for programs that have many sites that are similar in nature (gonzo porn, big tits, cumshots, whatever). The surfer pays one price, burns through the sites in a couple of month, and then when he comes back to my TGP / link sites / guide whatever, he already has 30 or 40 sites crossed off his list. All the promotion in the world isn't going to get him to sign up to any of those sites.
My feeling is that it would be better to have a lower ($9.99 per month) on individual sites rather than packaging them UP and making the effective price down to a couple of dollars per site. You get less from the surfer up front, but you can keep upselling him over and over to other sites within your network. Packaging stuff together just kills potential future sales by giving it all away now.
For me it makes money now short term and blows away long term potential. It is almost to a point where it is better for the affiliates to promote only a single "all in" site for each program rather than the individual sites.
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