JFPdude

I spend most of my day networking, designing, programming, and helping others. And I keep getting asked why I do all this. The reasons people ask me this is:

Sponsors now do:

Free Hosting.
Gallery Design.
Submissions of galleries.
Free Hosted Galleries.

This has been topic of conversation of a few people and myself this week. If the sponsors are going to do all this then why do they even need affiliates?

Webmasters complain about sponsor shaving all the time but then expect all this out of their sponsors. I even heard of a sponsor designing galleries and submitting them to the affiliates tgp. I mean whats the sense?

To me this is whats causing a lot of problems in the industry. People have tgp's turned on auto pilot. Thery have no clue whats being submitted to their tgp's because the script is babysitting the tgp for them.

I know a lot of people in this industry that work hard every day. They make good money too. But they get frustrated also seeing people making money when the sponsors are footing all the bills and doing all the work for people.

I understand this is a highly competitive market. But if the sponsors are doing all the work and footing all the bills why have affiliates? Especially affiliates that call them out on the boards time after time and accuse them of cheating and shaving. Hell if I was doing all the work I would probably be shaving the hell out of my affiliates that are doing nothing also.

Discuss.