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Old 07-28-2007, 10:22 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by TeenCat View Post
somebody is trying to find a hole on something that works. ok break is over now lets go back to the work k? ;)
The situation is it worked yesterday, it creaks and stutters along today and it will not work tomorrow.

The surfer is educated and affiliates sending traffic to sponsors that fucked the surfer to pay for the affiliate are the ones who educated him. Every time you fucked over a surfer you hit another nail into your coffin.

Think about it, $30 to pay for the sign up, and this is a minimum, the sign up needs a $1 product. How long before sites start putting up memberships for an hour for $1.00 a day for $2.00 and just letting the traffic flow to them?

Traffic was king, for a few years, today it's the surfer. There are simply too many options for him.

And all those who think the huge payouts are paid by upsells and cross sells simply do not run a paysite. The surfer joins a site and does not like it, so he joins another site he does not like. He does not do this once he does it every single time he signs up.

Get a calculator and work out the ratios that are needed to pay out some of the PPS, then look at the ratios on your site and common sense will tell you it does not work that way. Traffic that converts at 1-1000 suddenly in a flash goes to buying 1-1 on an upsell.
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