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Originally Posted by GITZINGER
So Lenny2, let me get this straight,
An affiliate program:
Hires the models, shoots the content and all that entails; photographers, videographers, locations equipment etc., edits the content, compresses the content, builds the sites and pays for programmers, pays the graphic designers, pays for compression, pays for servers, pays for bandwidth, goes out and gets merchant accounts, pays for credit card merchants accounts or billers, pays someone to do accounting and sending you your paycheck.
An Affiliate;, builds and submits galleries and tweaks SEO.
and you want 2 MONTHS of the customers payments?!?!
Talk about insulting!!
This is the thinking that is making the affiliate programs go after their own traffic sources and not depend as much on affiliates.
That's why you are basically talking yourself out of future income.
If you think these companies are not working to push you out for these very reasons, you are sorely mistaken.
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None of your arguments make any sense regarding this subject.
Sure programs have alot of overhead, that's part of the game.
HOWEVER, if you pay $35 on a $2.95 trial signup, then only half of the members will convert to a monthly membership.
On two signups you've collected just shy of $40 (one monthly at 30-50 and two trials at $3 each) and you have to pay me $70. ($35pps times two)
So in the monthly membership scenario, you're making the same payout on the same amount of immediate revenue, except you're going to keep that member on average a full month longer than in the scenario above.
You seem to think it's too high a payout. I think if you take an objective look at the numbers you'll see that it's really the same payout.
That's why I said the PPS payout in a no trial scenario should be at least $50 and as high as $70, depending on what the monthly price is.