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Old 05-16-2004, 06:56 AM  
Paul Markham
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jayeff your whole argument is flawed on one simple basis.

Let's say that there are 1,000 webmaster and 1,000,000 surfers ready to pay out $30 a month (the rest don't contribute to the system)

So each webmaster has 1,000 surfers to influence. Lets reduce the number of webmasters by 50% now those left have 2,000 to influence.

Reduce the number of webmasters by 90%, becasue they cannot pay for advertising that will make them money and those that are left are going to have 10 times the traffic to earn a living off.

Sponsors will have a lot less affiliates to watch and organise, the surfers will have less TGPs to visit, making those left even better.

The system of finding affiliates, caring for them, watching them, paying them is becoming so expensive it wil defeat itself. Unless the available traffic to steer increases everyone is going to make less and less profit.
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