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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Of course some will try to spin it but the bottom line is that the value proposition for the affiliate in adult is quite a bit less than it was in the past. It's pennies versus dollars. It's like the question of whether people coming out of college would like to become managers or whether they would like to work as a cashier at Walmart. Go to a mainstream forum and ask how many of them are ex-adult webmasters or why they don't work in adult with adult affiliate programs.
You will get two main answers:
1. It's all available for free. Nobody pays for porn these days!
2. All adult programs shave like crazy.
I don't entirely agree with #2 but that is the perception the industry has largely built for itself- a reputation of cheating affiliates. Again, don't ask 12clicks or oldjeff go ask the affiliates themselves. I think most of the affiliates here will tell you the same thing too. But somehow the input from actual affiliates tends to get ignored in favor of the BROtalk. And that's another reason why you can't find affiliates. Treat people like shit and they will eventually leave.
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Either you didn't read my post or you failed to understand it.
The affiliate model died for most Webmasters way back when WEG, Maxcash and Quickbuck wrapped up operations. For many businesses it became more profitable to build hundreds of sites, or hire a handful of professionals to build them, than to have hundreds of webmasters build one each. Site owners can make one traffic deal with another site owner and bring in more sales than hundreds of webmasters would send in a month. That's not a sad day for being an affiliate, it's a smart day to become a site owner or professional service provider.
If a guy who used to send two sales a year quit... What do you think happened to those same two sales in the future? They still bought two sites, they just don't buy them through him anymore and he earns nothing from them. It's not like affiliates made more people buy porn or like affiliates do something site owners can't do (or hire a professional to do).
The "affiliates" who still exist are either running their own Paysites, work as paid professionals, have sites earning quietly on autopilot, are hobbyists doing it for fun, or have massive traffic. The rest have retired or changed business models. Shaving didn't cause any of that. A shift in the cost / benefit of paying affiliates or building traffic sites in house caused a lot of it.... Years ago.
