Some very good points here.
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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
I would not go that far. Affiliates that understand how to work and do the majority of it themselves are worth something.
I know I just argued before that eventually if affiliates keep demanding stuff that one day the program owner will look over their costs and relize that it is cheaper and more efficient to do it all in house.
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I understand this, but will you be employing someone in your office, US rates would cost more than most affiliates earn. Put him outside your office and how do you control/monitor him?
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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
there is no circumstance that I can see where it would benefit me to give a program a list of tgp's that I've found send high quality traffic. sounds like one big fishing expedition to see which sites are worth buying banner spots on...
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Good point. But finding that info is not brain surgery. Look around and see who already spends money on the site.
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Originally Posted by mrthumbs
hey thats what this industry is all about: shooting yourself in the foot for a little short-term revenue..
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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST
Programs have been cutting affiliates out for the past 2 years... The smart affiliates are the ones that stop promoting other people's programs and start up their own.
More big submitters have moved this route in the past 2 years than anything.
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The smart affiliates stop taking everything from the sponsor when they realise how much it ties him to the sponsor.
Some extremely good points here. but the bottom line is cost/returns.
A very big program with all the traffic driving skills is set up near to us in Czech. You can employ a school leaver with the skills to submit galleries and free sites for around $700+ a month, plus office space and a computer. He will work 160 hours a month, under $5 an hour.
So why do they prefer to employ people to assist affiliates and run a big affiliate program?
Go work it out for yourself. If submitting for yourself worked on a investment/profit basis the big programs would stick a manager in the third world running an office of people submitting. Like some already do with webcam.
Interclimax own a house in Bulgaria full of webcam girls, do they also own a house full of girls submitting?