The affiliate model is a great way to bring in customers. It's just that Online Adult's version of it was doomed to hit a wall. It worked in good times, when the going got tough because of the problem the Online Adult's version of affiliate marketing created. The flaws are clear to see.
It was too easy to be an affiliate. People say that all it takes is a digital camera to shoot porn. Well all an affiliate needed was a computer and a connection to the Internet. Giving them so much help and money for a sign up, just made it easier and built what grew into a barrier between the buyer and seller. This barrier is now an alternative to buying porn. So free porn now sells a lot of Dating, Cams and penis pills which will hurt recorded porn people.
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?[You] may hang on for a while, but if your business plan is to use what every other affiliate is using, you?ll eventually move on to whatever job you?re really going to do for a living,? 12clicks stated.
?Smart affiliates who become whales do not hang on the teat of programs waiting for them to provide them with a living.?
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This is now becoming true for paysites. Because to sell something, in profitable numbers, today the product needs to be good to excellent. Sites and sponsors who thought all it took was traffic are discovering the surfer isn't so dumb.
What is good in porn is not defined by image clarity or mega pixels. It's the actual content on the screen being good enough to convince someone to buy.
Simply put it will become more of what is happening today. surfers going to the mega tubes, making most affiliates redundant and making recorded porn harder to sell.