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Old 05-07-2005, 02:45 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by NichePay - StuartD
In my opinion, a program that is just starting out should be only revshare... unless they have huge financial backings.

A program jumps immediately into the $25 and up payouts for each trial or month they get someone joined will do well, but not at first. The first few months, all the way up to a year.. maybe even more can be very hard to be profitable.

Sometimes you people forget that just because someone opens their doors and tries to get you promoting them, it doesn't mean that they unlimited resources and can promise you the world. You want 6 million free hosted galleries, free hosted paysites, exclusive content to only you and want to make $600 per sale on a $1 trial.... well, it just isn't going to happen from a company that is just getting their roots planted.
Good post. What a lot of affiliates do not realise is the money they think they should make for doing little and investing nothing is simply not going to happen.

They get seduced into pushing sites offering them the earth and the surfer little, then wonder why they make so little.

IMO both PPS and revshare can work, PPS is on the basis the site will make more out of the members than it pays the affilaites, revshare is on the basis the site will make more out of the members than it pays the affilaites.

The difference could be that one site will make money keeping members happy and the other will make money selling or sending them something or somewhere else.
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