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Originally Posted by digitaldivas
Well you are certainly entitled not to have one then BF. In my case, and perhaps why I am arguing this to death, is because I have seen fruition on both ends and the business model works for some and does not work with others. And run correctly and both parties do the job they need to do, it's a damn solid business model. I don't work with shady fucks. I would never do that to Digitaldivasonline. She's my baby. Means alot to me. With, say my affiliate program for BFO, my cost to profit ratio is superlow, I am perfectly fine with "splurging" 50 bucks on bandw and 10 hours a month in my time for hundreds in profit per month. There is also a thing called common sense in running a business. But you have your ideals and I have mine, my fellow footie BF.
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You're more than welcome to argue it to death.
$50.00 BW, and 10 hours a month would put you into a small niche program, which I had already addressed I was not referring to. As costs for a small fry are going to be minimal compared to a
BROgram that is running 50-100+ sites with hundreds, if not thousands of affiliates. Where there is a real cost to business, and that support.
I can drive traffic, and be successful as a one man show. Many other small program owners could do to the same as a small webmaster typically handles everything from SEO, driving traffic, shooting the content, building the sites, management, customer service and alike. Small webmasters are more skilled than most staff for a BROgram simply because they do, and know how to do, much more.
Now, getting back on point. As I said, there is a real cost to providing that support, and you made the choice to let affiliates do the work for you. That's fine. However, I am sure your support does not compare with a
BROgram, and the demands of their hundreds/thousands of affiliates.
The fact remains in my initial point and reply to sharphead. Bandwidth, support staff, free hosted galleries, designs, and the rest are a COST to a program owner. Especially when 10% of them are generating 90% of your sales.
Semantics aside.
