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Originally Posted by u-Bob
Affiliates bring in sales you otherwise wouldn't have had. If paying an affiliate a percentage of the profit those extra sales bring in gets you in trouble then you seriously need to rethink your payout process.
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They also bring in sales you would have. If you're just cream on the top, no need to pay out 50%, plus support. If you're the major deliverer of sales, then don't just dump traffic on the tour.
What ever, it's clear the future is without the high costs of affiliates. You're lost without content. The only thing that can save you is a return to 2007. The future is the big sites getting their own traffic and you unless you're on of a very few being sidelined.
Warchild recently bragged he was doing 1000 sales a month. At $32 a sale. What is he doing that someone in an office can't do for a 1/3 of that money. Economics play the biggest part.
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Originally Posted by DVTimes
In other systems the affilitate would get 5%.
think about say a site selling laptops. they are not going to pay out 50%.
Mabe websites would have been better off not paying out so much.
mabe 50% has and was way too much.
we are now used to 50%
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50% is often the minimum. now add all the new galleries, tube clips, banners, 24/7 support, hosting, ads to find them, etc. All to have the tail wag the dog?
I do not blame affiliates. I blame the original idiots who came up with this idea of 50%.