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Originally Posted by DWB
Who do you promote? There are plenty of sales still out there. Sure, it's not easy cash 1999 anymore, but there are an incredible number of people still joining paysites.
As Old Jeff said, you can't compare it anymore to the "old days" even though it is fun to do so. What we have is NOW and either you can make it in today's business or you can't. It will never be like it was before so it's not even worth bitching about anymore. I had to break myself of the same habit and totally refocus and rethink everything I was doing and the end results are that I'm making more money online in 2013 than I have in the past few years, so that means sales are up. Yea, I have those weeks everyone else has where things so down, but generally things are moving forward, not backwards.
I used to be a HUGE complainer of tubes, and I still dislike them. I hate pirates and love to take jabs at them when I can, but they are not going anywhere anytime soon and neither am I, so I've had to change my game plan and let loose of what I can't change and focus on what I can.
Either you can function in today's market or you can't. No shame in finding another job if you can't, you gotta do what you gotta do. It sucks, yea, but it is what it is. I work in small niches, with small sites, with small amounts of traffic, and I've learned how to get the most out of what I have and try by best to not complain too much about the way it used to be, because that is over. Gone. Never coming back. I can bitch about it or I can spend that time working on the things I have found that do still work.
So you either need to rethink it all and make a new game plan, or find another job. But know that there is plenty of money still to be made out there.
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Yes there are people still joining paysites. Yes you still make some money. But for affiliates they are having to generate 100,000 to 200,000 or more pageviews on their site before they make a sale.
It's like a broken record. It's completely different for a sponsor than an affiliate. If you make 200,000 page views on your paysite tour page then you're probably doing great. If an affiliate makes 200,000 page views on their site and does nothing else but send traffic to your paysite then the odds are that they are having Top Ramen tonight.
If you can't understand that then go back and read page one again until you do. It's amazing how many people can't seem to grasp this.
It's not a choice between being a paysite affiliate and finding another job. There are other things to do both inside and outside of the industry. That is what I am trying to convey to other affiliates. That maybe it's time to quit banging your head against the wall if you're still doing that. No one ever explained it to me that I was having to make 200,000 page views to make a sale. In the past I was stuck on ratios. It never occurred to me how bad it really was.