Originally Posted by robwod

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I can tell you we spend several thousands of dollars a month to promote programs. Programming costs, design costs, advertising costs, hosting costs, editorial costs, assorted administrative costs, hosting costs, server management costs.

It seems some program owners do not realize that many affiliates are registered businesses, and treat it as same. We also have overhead, employees, income taxes, etc.

And yes, we do create our own advertorials and purchase advertising to promote a service, program or model. To see stuff like popups, social links and other traffic leaks is a little discouraging and often times provides the incentive to focus on other sites that abstain from that sort of thing on their affiliate traffic tours.