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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
That remark about content is totally untrue.
If it costs $2K per week to update a site, then that's what it costs whether it has 100 or 10,000 members. So the cost per member for content can vary greatly, and if you're spending more on content than on traffic, then you're doing it wrong.
Comparing content to traffic is apples and oranges...but ask Nasty Dollars, Bang Bros, Brazzers, people spending millions on content, whether they spend more on content, or paying affiliates. (and paying affiliates is just another way to buy traffic)
As for your question, tracking upsells to an affiliate isn't possible as far as I know, unless you're upselling to something you own.
A good solution would be to up your percentage payout in an amount commensurate with the ads you're running in the members area....to be fair to the affiliates.
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No the remark can and is often very true for most people. Not everyone gets to be nasty dollars, bang bros, brazzers, etc. Many start sites on fairly tight budgets and it will be some time before the costs equal out to a set rate (costing no more for 1000 members etc.). Example is when someone starts a exclusive site with say 20 scenes and weekly updates for the rest of the year preshot. Lets say they are down 52k in content when they open the door. They will not see a profit off that content until they do at least 104k in revshare sales (processing/hosting etc. not included) before they see a penny of profit. This can often take them some time to achieve. Also often why so many small programs are revshare to begin with, when we all know PPS makes the program more money.
I am all for being fair to affiliates. I also do everything with retention in mind and any upsell I do is something that would not harm my rebills nor be competing. I know it is about 20 times easier to keep a customer than get a new one so I am not about to just sell them off super cheap etc.