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When I opened Claudia Marie's site in May 2007, affiliate sales were almost 100% of the sales. Very few type ins.
By the end of 2009, pirate tube sites had pretty much siphoned away all the traffic from our affiliates. Guys who used to send 30+ sales a day didn't have traffic anymore and are lucky to send one sale every couple of months now.
Luckily, I went to work on building our own traffic. Mostly from Claudia Marie's social networking and her picture blog.
Last month affiliate sales totaled 19% of my sales (talking about NEW sales). Everything else is type ins.
It means I'm making more money because I don't have to pay out 50% to affiliates...but at the same time, it limits future growth and shows the impact that piracy and full free scenes on tubes have done to this business.
I'd rather have my healthy affiliates back and growing stronger each year. THAT was good business.
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