Let me add a little more insight from myself into this thread.
First of all, I consider myself a true webmaster. I don't go to shows, no affiliate programs I run, and I just make sites and develop traffic.
When I sign up to a new program, that catches my interest, a few things are going on.
I have to see a site that catches my eye, and seems to me will convert. I have been looking at porn sites since 1996, been in dozens of member sections, and have an idea of what works.
The first thing I am going to do after I get my linking code, is register domains. That costs me money. Next, content, my own that I pay for and license. I also create my own logos, my own site brands, and try to create a nice cozy path for the surfer to get to a sign up page.
Within the first week if I choose to send traffic to a new program, with my time, hosting, domains, traffic, and design, I invest easily hundreds of dollars before any sales are even made.
When I put up new sites, and do all of this work, I guarantee they will sit there for as long as my traffic rolls off my pages, onto yours, and generates revenues I get paid for. Simple as that. I have pages from 2001 that still make sales.
Let me add, I don't run any single big traffic site. I am not a whale, and don't promise thousands in sales in a certain period. But what I do does make money, and what I have to say is reasonable for some other business people out there to pay attention to.
long term baby, long term.
