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Originally Posted by fuzebox
Except that you're not taking into account the fact that the PPS payout is much larger. You're just taking the same payout stretched across several months. If the main sites you do PPS with have a bad month in sales, you just don't blow all your money, lol.
Like I said early in this thread, revshare vs. pps for me has nothing to do with "the long run" or "money over time" or whatever, and everything to do with $ per member. Yes I have members rebilling for years too, but that doesn't change the fact that I average under $30 per 50% revshare sponsor, and under $25 if they use trials. It doesn't matter how you stretch those revshare rebills out, it's a very easy formula of lifetime earnings divided by lifetime sales. I can do a lot more with that money up front, like scale it into even more money.
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I suppose everyone's experiences are different. Mine stretch out over years and I made a lot more money in that time than the guys who took the PPS. I also chose "no trial" options everytime I was given the opportunity to.
As far as the money up front making me money...well, as I said l made a lot of money in revshare. Matter of fact...made enough to buy a lot of property and also put a nice chunk in the stock market. Seemed like a good thing to do at the time. Lost my ass big time. lol
When you're making several mortgage payments on commercial properties that no longer have tenants because their little businesses went out of business...AND the property is underwater and you owe more than it's worth so you can't sell it...well, then trying to take my porn money and invest it in the "mainstream" world no longer looks like I was a genius.
I had to divest myself of all that stuff and ended up losing over 3/4 million dollars by the time the bloodbath was over on the real estate. But I had no choice or it would be draining my money every month to the ground paying the mortgages (the rent to tenants of course paid it before and even made a nice little profit 4 years ago).
So now I don't even THINK about doing stuff outside of porn. Not at least until this economy turns itself around. Though I do wish I still had enough extra money to buy real estate NOW. I'd buy every damn thing I could at rock bottom prices. Unfortunately since my affiliate revenue stream is steadily eroding due to not being able to make new sales to programs anymore...that ain't happening.
I guess I'm basically hanging on and riding this shit out. The things I did for the CM site have made it a money earner and it truly has been recession-proof. Thank God!