Wellllllllllll..... a site or two of mine have a few pics scattered from your bargain basement content store and you know what? They convert pretty damn good. So it isn't at all about the price of the content you buy but how you deliver it to them. What YOU have to realize is that while WE may have seen that content 9000000000 times, doesn't mean the surfer has. There are a shitload of surfers out there, babe.
If you have the correct delivery of your product, you can sell just about anything to anyone. Take this store we have here locally. They deal in almost nothing else but name brand, overstock from other big stores, to the point where they still have the old price tags from the stores it originated from........ so clearly "bargain basement" right? Well...... THAT store stays packed all the damn time.. and the originating store is like in the next parking lot over and if you see someone in that store, you are damn well seeing something, because there isn't ever anyone in there.
You know why? They get a better deal, it's not as "stuck up" and it's employees don't walk around behind you like you are trying to steal their shit. It's all about how you deliver your product, no matter what the product is, or how much it cost YOU, the seller..... make sense?
So if ya wanna point fingers, point them at me too....... because I use your Bargain Basement content, but I don't deliver it in a big flashy package and my "store" is a friendly one.
As for offering the webmasters everything to come and promote you? Well, a bar was set and to compete, you have to do what you have to do to show the webmasters that you are willing to go the extra mile for their business. Do I always agree with this? Nope, I really don't..... I came from a place that said "Do the work yourself, make your own galleries, and so on." When I started out, there was no such thing as a hosted gallery or anything, about the best you got was free hosting. But somewhere there was another bar set and incoming programs have/had to keep up in order to get the business. And I am fine with this, we work our heads off for our Affiliates. The mindset I have at this point is that I work for my Affiliates, and my Affiliates work for me, we are a TEAM, everything I do is a team effort and my affiliates are part of that team, so if they have a suggestion or a need, then I am damn well going to try and fulfill this need.
Clear it up for you JUST a little?
