ronaldo

I'll tell you, I seriously had the same question, hence the thread. I've been mulling it over after talking to this guy a couple of days ago and after reading some of the responses in this thread and the ONLY real concern I can think of that MIGHT be legitimate is direct contact with the member.

Imagine a member joins your site. You now have direct contact with that member. How you want to USE that contact is open for debate. But you also KNOW that he's willing to pay for porn. So, after 3 months that member leaves, but YOU still have his contact info. You know the type of porn that he likes, so you either send him a disounted offer to rejoin after a while, send him to another one of YOUR sites, OR send him links to ANOTHER program so you can at least get a referring income from him. When you notice his rebill stops, you can send him another suggestion. In a sense, you could become his trusted source for porn.

So, if you add say, "product A", and he buys their product, not only do YOU have contact with them, but so does "Tim". It's NOT beyond the realm of possibility to think that he may now try to lure that member away. That "exclusive" contact that you had with that member (of course there will probably be other people who's sites he's joined) is now gone. While you've made $200 or whatever off of that member by upselling him, you may now be competing for his future business with "Tim".

Thinking of it in that sense, I could see why "joins" may be more important than another revenue stream. If I was a paysite owner, I can honestly say that I'd be looking REALLY closely at those numbers and it could very well determine whether or not I'd have upsells as well.