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CoolE · 02-03-2003, 09:52 AM

Hmmm, I'm surprised to hear so few voices proclaim their preference for PPS vs partnership. I've always found that I made more as an affiliate with PPS. The occassional surfer would recur for ages on a partnership, but the vast majority would cancel before the end of the trial or the first or second month, and I would get paid peanuts for my signup.

Now that I run my own partnership program, I'v gone through the math and our average affiliate makes about $27.50 per sign-up.

But I have noticed a trend on the part of surfers to cancel and rejoin the site often - basically they come back every few months to get our updates of exclusive material. We have had some members join and cancel 8 times or more (for a month or 2 each time) in the 18 months of the site's existence. So I think our affiliates are not getting paid what each surfer referral is really worth (to us) with a 60% partnership program.

So I have been considering switching our program over to a $28 - $32 PPS program (with productivity bonuses increasing the PPS rate), thinking that this would be much preferrable by our affiliates, and they would make more, and spread the word about our site and program. It would be one of a very few sites on the net that PPS but offer verifiable 3rd party stats so affiliates know there is no shaving at all.

But this thread has me wondering if my assumption that PPS is much more desireable by affilaites is wrong.

Hmmm.

Or have 1:2000 conversions (reported conversions) on some PPS programs tainted people's opinions of PPS perhaps?

02-03-2003, 09:52 AM
CoolE Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 451	Hmmm, I'm surprised to hear so few voices proclaim their preference for PPS vs partnership. I've always found that I made more as an affiliate with PPS. The occassional surfer would recur for ages on a partnership, but the vast majority would cancel before the end of the trial or the first or second month, and I would get paid peanuts for my signup. Now that I run my own partnership program, I'v gone through the math and our average affiliate makes about $27.50 per sign-up. But I have noticed a trend on the part of surfers to cancel and rejoin the site often - basically they come back every few months to get our updates of exclusive material. We have had some members join and cancel 8 times or more (for a month or 2 each time) in the 18 months of the site's existence. So I think our affiliates are not getting paid what each surfer referral is really worth (to us) with a 60% partnership program. So I have been considering switching our program over to a $28 - $32 PPS program (with productivity bonuses increasing the PPS rate), thinking that this would be much preferrable by our affiliates, and they would make more, and spread the word about our site and program. It would be one of a very few sites on the net that PPS but offer verifiable 3rd party stats so affiliates know there is no shaving at all. But this thread has me wondering if my assumption that PPS is much more desireable by affilaites is wrong. Hmmm. Or have 1:2000 conversions (reported conversions) on some PPS programs tainted people's opinions of PPS perhaps? Last edited by CoolE; 02-03-2003 at 09:56 AM..