Great post and interresting responses. Crockett, while I understand why many people promote CCBill sites I have to disagree with parts of "telling small single girl sponsors and other small sponsors to switch too their own billing software would be like a death sentence to them. Most of the small programs I join are because they are CC bill sites and I know I will get paid in bulk from CC bill and not have to worry about not getting enough sales from one small sponsor to meet it's payout minimum..
1) We began as a
small program with just one site
BrandiLove.com yet we started with NATS. The decision was made to bite the bullett to benefit our affiliates, ourselves and position the company for growth. If a site is not making enough to ultimately pay for a program like NATS (i.e. low sales) I fail to see why an affiliate would choose to promote them
2) As far as getting paid in bulk and minimum payouts, I would think that if a few small or a couple large programs were chosen which offer high converting sites targeted toward the traffic you serve you would never have to think about enough sales.
Just my
