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Originally posted by TheBigGuy
My 2 cents...rather than losing the trial, I would be thinking of more ways to upsell inside, esp. with your type of niche. The free trial after a paid month was scammy back then and still sounds scammy. Finally and most importantly, what webmaster would promote a non-trial prog?
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well, we're working on that as well...we have mucho upsells and such....but is the free week after a month any more scammy than the free trial? either way, there aren't a lot of people who read the TOS and/or disclaimers...all the trial tours claim "one week free" or "only $4.95" but the recur is not mentioned until the join form (personally, I don't have a problem with this, just giving that as an example of being the same as the buy one month, get a week free)....I realize most webmasters won't send to programs without trials, but I feel that if the promotion is right and the tour works well, the trial doesn't make a difference....especially in the goth niche...it's not like surfers are comparative shopping
it will also cut down on some of the fraud....if the tour is good enough to sell, I don't see why I should settle for $3-4 when that same surfer will just go ahead and pay the $30-40 per month...of course if we were doing the same generic niches and tours as everyone else, we'd probably have to go with the flow....if for nothing more than the "webmaster marketing" aspect....
this has always been a complaint of mine from both ends....trying to create a program that sells the webmaster and the surfer...I see all these slick, overproduced tours and funny enough, our best converting site is AlternativeGirls and the tour is very amateurish...almost plain....but webmasters won't send traffic to it for that same reason....hehehe, go figure ;)
I remember the days before trials and my conersions didn't suffer much back then, even when everyone started going with trials....
thanks for the feedback, it is nice to know what everyone is thinking....