A Thought/Suggestion For Processors (CCBill, Epoch, etc.)

CCBill had something like this a LONG time ago. Not blogs but a system to connect with other similar sites etc etc.

was a complete waste.

CCBILL and Epoch should charge less, 14.5% is ridiculous in my opinion, they get away with it because they know the majority of their clients are mom and pop operations who can't or don't want to get their own merchant account and run their own affiliate program software - so no reason for them to drop their fees a couple points. The 5% holdback is another money grab, we know it's not necessary because Epoch has survived and thrived without it.

CCBILL does have features that are meant to make more money for their clients and themselves - access to your customer emails you can mail to, cross-sales, and one click upsells/upgrades. The one click upsells, both to the clients other sites or sites owned by other processed by CCBILL should be much much easier to implement, most CCBILL clients I know don't do it simply because they don't know how.

In my experience, a lot of surfers have a preference for a specific billing company and CCBill does seem to come up well here as a join page surfers trust.

BFT3K suggested a useful idea and something which CCBill could afford to outsource cheaply or otherwise use minimal resources to do.

C4S is almost precisely the same thing as an IPSP except they take like 40%, which makes that 15% or whatever seem pretty sweet.

CCBill did used to have a sort of database for finding other CCBill sites by keyword, but almost nobody put any keywords into the system, and it had a kind of awful UX. So they are not wholly opposed to the concept, just could do with something more robust.