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Old 07-19-2011, 10:04 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by charlie g View Post
OK, you pulled me back in.

A program could not have pulled the numbers building their own traffic network that an affiliate program Paul. It would take years to build in house what the affiliate program could produce in a month...

For instance, 35% of the profit of 10,000 signups per month is far better than 80% of the profit from 500 signups per month. Again, the internet is a numbers game.

And, even if the programs had gone the in-house route to marketing... we would still be in the same place we are now.... porn surfers will go where the cheapest and most convenient product can be seen. Programs still would have had to give more free porn to get the market share of surfers.
You're still thinking that affiliates had to be competed with. They were supported by sponsors. Yes if one site went out on it's own, it would fail.

Today they rule the online porn and it's them sites have to cater to first. Sponsor comes next, to pay for everything and customer third.

Which is why customers are getting fewer.

If in 2007 it would of taken a program to build the traffic, why how were affiliates able to do it? What came first, affiliates or sites?
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