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Originally Posted by JaceXXX
i know one paysite in particular...a single girl site, that has NO affiliate program, and only two people do the work for the whole site...it has upwards of 500 monthly subscribers
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Such a paysite could still do that, have their 500 monthly subscribers all to themselves AND.... by adding an affiliate program bring in twice that.
You can't look at it as bringing in 1000 members but only making half the money. That is money that the paysite owners otherwise wouldn't have, and that's why it is worth it. Trying to explain that to someone who just doesn't understand or doesn't want to understand is futile though, some people just will not get it no matter how it's explained.
If the affiliate program business model was the big bad utterly retarded thing that some of you seem to want to make it out to be, then why are ALL of the largest progams in adult running them?
And as to the point about affiliates being lazy... give me a fucking break people. An affiliate still has to build sites, still has to do design work, hundreds of hours of promotion and arranging link trades and networking in order to build up traffic, has to invest money for promo, must spend money on all the things he/she isn't able to provide themselves such as programing work, graphic design, ongoing grunt work, not to mention hundreds of hours a month in maintaining things...... anyone who thinks they can start from scratch and become the uber-affiliate overnight is completely out to lunch.
I'm not saying it's like digging ditches, but it's certainly not a simple cakewalk either.
Program owners who run affiliate programs are competing with each other for affiliates and their traffic. Why should I send even one hit to a site that offers me a payout of $5 when I can just as easily send my traffic to these other twenty programs who pay out $15 or $20?
Models who thiknk like Cheesefrog's model does should really stick to modelling. I've heard the same shit from some solo girl site owners, some of these girls just don't get it about why it's worth paying out 50% for affiliate referrals. I've come to tealize that this is one concept that you either get it or you don't.
Carry on...