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Old 08-15-2009, 09:28 AM  
Barefootsies
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Here's and interesting question. A lot of talk about whales in this thread. What is a whale nowadays? I am sure there are a lot of people existing on a few joins a day, but how many does it take to influence a program? How many joins does it take to be an influential "whale"?
I asked a couple of processors that very question in Florida, since they see the back end of the transactions and would know better what is actually true about this industry, and claims. Here is there responses.

1. The only whales sending 100-200 joins a day are mailers. A lot via Yahoo.

2. A whale, in 2009 terms, sends 2-20 joins a day. If you can consistently do that. You are a whale in 2009.

3. If cross sales were eliminated tomorrow. 50-75% of the programs would close. They stay alive on cross sales, and some up sells.

So there you have it.
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