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Originally Posted by BVF
Just going by these two statements, wouldn't it be better to eliminate those costs before you took the percentage out of the affiliate?.....Why are you renting an affiliate script? Just use the one ccbill has that's free.....Why allow 1.5 gigs of content to be downloaded?.....I've ALWAYS made it so that an affiliate has to email me before I make his galleries....
It's always more diplomatic to cut unnecessary costs before you start taking profit and running affiliates off....I want EVERY SALE that an affiliate can give me...I don't care if it's once a month...It all adds up for ME.
Another thing you could do is raise your price by $5...That is if you're not charging more than 30 bucks now....Also you can add geo pricing....That's put a nice extra chunk of change in my pocket since day one...
Let's be honest....you were pissed off when you wrote that email and were basically saying in a professional way, "Shit is bad so fuck you affiliate...I gotta take it out of your end"....
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See, I like how you break things down and I tend to agree with you. In the past I had allowed some (very few) affiliates to just go into the site and grab what they wanted to use. While it was good for them, it turned out bad in some respects cause it meant quite a bit of stuff got out there unmarked. Which I'm dealing with now.
It's funny you say to raise my prices, I this month, in fact lowered them. I had been running 34.95 for 6 years but just dropped the price down to 19.95. going by the figures, this has greatly increased signups... to the point where on a daily average the sites actually bringing in more revenue than at the old higher price. I can only guess that this should help some as to rebills also.
See, I'm not hiding anything here. I'm more than happy to share my numbers stats and anything else, really why wouldn't I? Want some screen shots from CCbill showing ratios?
Done.
Believe me this is not something that I just woke up this morning and said to myself "Damn I think I'll go and piss everyone off today" It's something that I have sat and worked the numbers and just don't see any other way at this moment in time.