200 dumbass posts like one quoted

I rather work with smaller affiliate programs that depend on their webmasters instead of the larger programs who forget where their money comes from.

If you mean joins you are smoking crack?

There is no way I will waste my time with an affiliate sending 5 sales per day. Do you think quiet would do this with his site? I am in the same boat as him. I support my site on my own. I don't need affiliates but I have had few webmaster who can push alot of sales contact me wanting to advertise my site. I am willing to take on a few larger affiliates who are looking for a quality site to promote. The webmasters who know what they are doing are always looking for fresh sites that convert and retain well. These webmasters would rather be one of few selected webmasters to work closely with a good site. Ask anyone who promoted bangbus before it was open to all the newbies. My site is not as original as their site but it converts tgp traffic like mad without trials because it has fresh content that people like.

I am not putting down the business model of having alot of small webmasters but I do not want to use that business model. It is just not for me and I think I can get a few large affiliates who will fit in nicely with what I want to do.

so where is all thoose people who make 100K per month?

I've never heard of more than a small bunch of webmasters (ie one guys, not a company with half a dozen people) doing over $100k a month. And the ones I know of are pushing dozens (yes with an s) of sponsors and ranked in the top10 of a big bunch of them.
My :2 cents:

at IwantU.com, we believe the contrary. We prefer to have several thousand active affiliate linking to our website, than only few large ones (But of course, we gladely accept large affiliates as well, and we have several :glugglug )

This will obvisouly increases tremendously our workload and support budget. However, it also increases our PR and visibility on the Internet.

Two different way of thinking i guess! :)

Interesting thread

I don't know what planet some of you are from, but I know a lot of small scale webmasters that rely on their Lightspeed checks to pay bills, take vacations, or save for their kids education.

$500/month may not seem like a lot to some of you guys, but its not a bad check considering all they had to do was put up a link on their website. Promoting Lightspeedcash costs our affiliates ZERO. We provide and pay for everything -- exclusive content, hosting, design work, billing, etc.

I didn't realize how many of you were making 10s of millions a year I guess.. You are certainly welcome to add Lightspeedcash to your mix of sponsors!

If you've tried us in the past without success, you should take another look now that we've completely redesigned our network, sites, pricing, and payout structures this year.

Steve Lightspeed

Seems like we have a lot of gutless sponsors out there who arent willing to share the same info. I have the urge not to promote the ones who wont post the same info.

I dont aggree on posting cities of top affiliates.

LightspeedCash has the intregrity and the sites that convert, no wonder so many successful sponsors are kicking ass with Lightspeed! :glugglug

bump

There seems allot of programe owners who dont wish to post there stats I wonder why ? Have they got something to hide.
Im going to look at all the programes who post there stats here thats for sure I like people who are upfront and honest.

wow thats coo

no hate here, I don't make a ton of money with you guys and I'd like to make more, but what I do make I know will be in my mailbox when it's due. You guys are a solid program and shouldn't be worried what a few haters may think. We all know everyone on GFY is banking 10k before lunch time everyday, day in and out.
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this is great.
i'd really like to see more sponsors post their top 100 on here.
very interesting to see

Good point! I have noticed many people on this board are talking about big business and big $$$ but if you get to know them closer they are nothing. They don?t have the sales, the traffic and many not even quality hosting or content at all?

with those numbers you could calculate a sponsors income pretty acurately

Here is July 2004 for TotemCash (previous one was June 04). Interesting to see movers and shakers ;) Also posted conversion ratio (clicks sent / joins) for each. You can clearly see who sends SE traffic (and converts below 1/450) and who post galleries (and do around 1/1500).

1 Poway CA UNITED STATES $9620.01 1/459
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Join us at www.totemcash.Com to take your share. There is still tons of $$$ to be made with Strippers on Desktop, mostly because the keywords associated with it (screensavers, goodies, desktop, themes, icons etc) are not saturated at all :Graucho

But one thing what I wonder about is that many companies if you make $2,000-$5,000 per month don?t treat you very well. These are not any of those that posted here but I always felt like a small fish. Especially I wondered about one company that I made around $300k-$400k with over a couple years.

Because of such things, and some others ;-) I keep splitting my traffic over more and more companies?

nice stats.

Thank you for making this clear and public, jpv. I will make a note that your company (which is? that wasn't clear - and I read this board with sigs off) is one I will never do business with. That's not meant as a dig or a jab - you don't want my business, so I don't want to make the mistake of doing business with you.

I can't seem to phrase that without making it sound mean-spirited. I really don't mean for it to sound that way - your business model is yours and I respect that. I guess I've been put off by a few bad eggs who have no problem dissing their lower-performing affiliates while still taking their traffic. I won't mention names.

One of the first things I learned in this business is to never put all your eggs in one basket. I've lived by that, and it's served me reasonably well.

My small amount of traffic is spread among many advertisers and I am constantly tweaking the results. Seeing the stats a few brave sponsors have posted has made me feel a bit better about my lowly stats, and has motivated me to work a little harder - I appreciate the information.

Agreed. Let them post their own stats.

very interesting thread , :warning

Even with a Top100 list, you still don't know how many total affiliates there are, or how much traffic/signups a program buys or generates internally --- or what that companies expenses are (or how deeply in debt they are)

There is a HUGE difference between being BIG and being PROFITABLE. Ask Amazon.com about that one.

Steve Lightspeed

i've posted my stats several times over the years, wasn't ever going to do it again. one more time won't kill me i guess... year to date from ibill CMI Yearly Statement Summary. no affiliates. i have other stuff going on these days as well, but in an effort to keep that shit under wraps, i'll only post stats from the site most people associate with me.


http://catalog.com/uvlight/images/lateststats.gif

note that this is AFTER all ibill fees, and is the actual wire money sent out...

Our top webmasters makes much much more then that numbers!

Simple enough for Sean, a bit of googling for Jdog...

Excuse my ignorance quiet. What site are your stats from? What sources of traffic? Highest number I've ever seen on GFY, very nice to see indeed. Your tax would suck big time though I guess. (

Very interesting thread.

FWIW when ARS was running smoothly 15 or so sales a day used to keep me at about 100th position, from conversations with some bigger fish number 5 position could have been 80 or so a day.

I Wouldda love to have known what it took to get to number 1

Stats are fascinating :Graucho

a lot of people here are living in a dream world.

i think you missed his point. he doesnt want to take on their traffic because he doesnt have the time to answer their questions, etc. i respect that compared to a company that will let them be an affiliate but not answer any questions or help them out.

:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh

Speed Bump :helpme

Really? Then post your top100 :Graucho

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Not too bad :thumbsup

We make more, but then again have to payout affiliates and other expenses.

One thing I notice though, you're paying around 15% processor fees? Shouldn't you get a lower one for that volume with IBill??

Exactly. I don't have a problem with people making a few thousand a month and I don't mean to put them down. That is a good living. I just run a site that I advertise by myself. I would not have the time to have alot of affiliates and help them out in a way to make everyone more money. Now if they can send a minimum amount of sales per day to make it worth my time I would be willing to spend the time with the few affiliates.

Everyone who is talking about diversification must understand something. Diversification does not mean you need to use 20 programs. Find a few solid programs and go with them. There are so many webmasters doing 50 sales a day in the teen market. If I can get them to send half of their traffic to my site then they will still be diversified enough. Warren Buffett for a while had all of his money invested in 3 companies. He said if you find a couple solid companies that are out performing other companies why would you put some money in the mediocre companies just for the sake of diversification. Just do your homework. Then you can diversify outside of the adult business.