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Originally Posted by phil-flash
Hey Ryan,
Since you want to start off with "you should", I will as well.
You should read my entire post. Nowhere, did I say I that I was frustrated with MC. I said I was hesitant to sign up. I am weary of a lot of programs with their own billing and their own check writing.
I prefer programs that use CCBIll, Epoch, and others. You know, companies that have always paid on time.
I know how to convert traffic. I am converting 10 year old content into sales daily, and I have been around since 2002, while a lot of my direct competitors are out of business.
When I send clicks to a program like kinkydollars (Jessie Cox) for several days, check the stats and see 0 clicks, I pull the links and say fuck it! This has happened to me with several companies, so again, I am weary to sign up to new programs. Especially when they are not using a billing company that I am familiar with.
These are the reasons I asked if anyone had experiences with your affiliate program. Which I still, haven't seen a post from any current affiliate saying anything yet.
I have model specific content, in which I had shot the model's "rookie content", or a few random pictures of her that I took, and can post, and that can lead out to new affiliate sales with my member traffic, but usually... I have to say fuck it. Because the sites are poorly ran, and don't track clicks or sales accurately.
I know that out of a few hundred member clicks, that there should be a conversion here and there. This is not random surfer traffic, this is member traffic.
One more thing, wise people never say "you should" to anyone. No one wants to be told what he or she should do, should know, etc.
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Just giving my two cents here >> generally when trying to find companies that do not pay or on time, you would look for smoke. There hasn't been a single post on the boards that would suggest that, and theres one thing we can all agree on, gfy posters love controversy so if we had done anything like you are weary about, then it would have probably been posted about at some point in recent couple years
You wont find many companies anymore that do not pay/ripping people off, unless they are dated (on a steep decline)/dead companies, this is a mature industry and to succeed nowadays, you need to run it like a legit mainstream business. You would end up nowhere if you ripped people off. Plus with the recent launch of an affiliate program, to give people no sales (or a lack of) is just not good for business, if a company were to rip people off , it wouldn't be at the beginning. My 2 cents.
I actually can't think of any modern companies who have ripped anybody off. Though i could be mistaken. ModelCentro is the same company as AdultCentro which is used by a large percent of adult, with no issues. If any of that helps ease your conerns
IMO 100 clicks, members traffic or not , is too small of a sample size. Throughout my years running paysites and affiliate sites, Ive seen all sorts of weird trends, until you are dealing with insane amounts of money, strange spikes occur. Ive seen days where i've had 50 sales and the next 0-3 with no techincal issues, no recent changes in traffic sources, etc. Next 100 hits, you could get 4-5 sales. Perhaps its the site you are sending to, i can't say. But i can assure you the clicks are being tracked properly and we want to give our affiliates sales ;) Perhaps you can give me the site you are sending from and your affiliate info and i can look into it. Hit me up on ICQ or email.