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Originally posted by SKULL
Maybe instead of lowering rates they should improve the quality of their sites... is not really the webmasters fault but theirs... It looks to me like they are taking it on us...
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The quality of the sites is only a small part of the equation.
What do you think they're taking out on you? Do you think you should get paid more for your traffic than its worth?
There was a time when a sign up was worth $35 easy..both the affiliate and the sponsor made a healthy profit with no cross sales and modest exit consoles.
Quality is not the reason retention is down....ARS has more content in their members areas now than they ever have, yet recurring is at an all time low.
Why? Competition.
If you're the only resturaunt in town, odds are the townspeople are going to eat at your place and eat there often.
But what if a new resturaunt opens up? Now they don't eat at your place every night, they get to try something new.
Now what if 1000 new resturaunts open up?
The consumer has so many choices he never has to eat in the same place twice.
The same is true of our business....there is so much more porn out there for the surfer to consume than there was 2 years ago its ridiculous.
They used to stay members of a site because there weren't many other options, now they have unlimited options so they spend a few days here and a few days there.
The problem with this and payouts is that as the value of a member dwindled, paysite owners knew that if they lowered payouts they'd lose their webmaster base, just like alot of webmasters are jumping ship now.
So they came up with other ways to squeeze revenue out of every click and watched their margins shrink month after month.....and that's what got us in the mess we're in.