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Originally Posted by will76
When you do a business plan, something that a lot of you probably have never done, you figure out what all of your expenses will cost you to opperate, then you figure how much profit you are satisfied with, and the difference left over is what you are going to allocate to traffic/sales via an affilaite program. If you don't want to pay affiliate then don't have an affiliate program, do all of your traffic in house then you can charge yourself check fees and all that other shit.
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Quoted for fucking truth. Half of these guys have no fucking clue what you are talking about. I will bet everything I will ever own that 75% of these guys do not have any business plan whatsoever in writing much less can actually define what a business plan is. Shit most of them have no idea what an executive summary is. Most of them have no fucking clue how to do a proper risk analysis or even a simple request for proposal. To those 75%, business is slapping shit up on page with a link to a join button.
Other areas that programs fail to consider for their affiliates is what about the programs that do not do shit about piracy? What sense does it make for me as an affiliate to pimp your shit if I can find it all over torrents and newsgroups? Hard to sell snow to Eskimo at a premium rate when all they have to do is walk outside and get it for free. Some programs even look at it as "free branding" which many affiliates will end up losing the sale on later type-ins. Many times piracy has been discussed here and moving to streaming only was proposed only to be met with "too expensive" bullshit.
Fuck it. From this point forward, if you don't protect your shit or the access to it, you deserve to get ripped and pirated. And until the entire industry moves to streaming and protecting their content, there will be more than enough free porn on the tubes, torrents, newsgroups, etc... that no one will ever have to buy it again.