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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Concentrate on selling to the markets we can sell to and not squeezing a few bucks out of those we can't sell to.
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Well it depends on how youre treating them but id consider this probably the wrong time to be thinking along those lines. It also depends where youre trying to convert them but if its adult traffic that can work well on dating and you sent them to adult dating with a strong database on those specific geos, it can work well.
On AFF, purely as an example, you should factor in a number of considerations:
(1) On the % deal, you get a few cents income from male/female "low paying" signups regardless of whether they convert to paid.
(2) The consensus is that the dollar is going to remain and become increasingly weak over the longer term whilst emerging market currencies are likely to appreciate, especially the asian currencies which of course reduces the purchase price for them.
(3) In many asian economies, especially the largest like India and China, GDP per capita and personal & disposable incomes are rising as fast as access to payment methods and credit card use.
(4) The larger the number of webmasters adopting the view, the larger the community base for those geos and therefore the larger the chance of upgrading them.
In this way you can view your emerging market sign ups, on lifetime revshares as an investment that might help offset any downturn from western markets if the shit hits the fan.