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Originally Posted by Les Grossman
Are you serious? The affiliate model is very expensive, and becoming not worth the hassle and expense.
What is going to happen is, programs are slowing going to phase out the bulk of affiliates and only continue working with the top ones, while feeding their sites with internal traffic to pick up the slack. This is a MUCH cheaper model.
You guys can laugh it up now if you want. Please bookmark this thread and visit it again in 2 - 3 years. Lets see where the affiliate model is then. 80% of you won't be here, that much I know.
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let alone the "promo tools" which are done one time, affiliates cost nothing.
There is no other way to get a swarm of people to work for you and be paid only for results.
Any in-house traffic manager will cost you, and by today's conversion ratios, will cost you more even if you get 100% of the profits.
There are a handfull of non-affiliate programs but they operate in small niches and the number of sales is limited.
The affiliate model is not going away soon. Just look at mainstream market who just realized the value of affiliates and are counting more and more on this model.