Webmaster referral percentages...what's fair?

[billywatson]

A general question:

I'm getting ready to launch a reseller program, and I want to set our rate to webmasters referring other webmasters as competitive as possible...anyone wanna offer up their thoughts?

We can't, at this time, offer anything more than a rev share...

Thanks everyone!

[BT]

3% of the sales

[Corleone]

as a affiliate I'd want 7,5- 10%

but 5% is would be fair too

[billywatson]

what if I bump it to 5...or even 7.5? I mean...what's the breaking point? When do I lose??

[Manowar]

5% - 10%

[born]

5% - 10%

I agree 5%-10% is more then fair!

[Sosa]

I like 10%

[Snake Doctor]

Do you guys like the % deals better or the $200 per active webmaster deals?

[Corleone]

Do you guys like the % deals better or the $200 per active webmaster deals?

depends who you refer but I noticed that % is very very cool on the long run

[Michael O]

Want to be competative 10%

I have a few webmaster referrals making me a nice chunk of change but I recently checked my stats and overall I would have done better with $200 per active (5 sales)

[chadglni]

10% with 0 requirement to send sales yourself.

[woj]

10% with 0 requirement to send sales yourself.

was thinking the same

[Martin]

You're name is billy watson? I knew this little crazy fucker with the same name back in high school. Start a fight with the biggest dude in the room just for fun. Get drunk and scream MY NAME IS BILLY WATSON!!

[tranza]

what if I bump it to 5...or even 7.5? I mean...what's the breaking point? When do I lose??

You are the only person that can answer that question...

[billywatson]

You're name is billy watson? I knew this little crazy fucker with the same name back in high school. Start a fight with the biggest dude in the room just for fun. Get drunk and scream MY NAME IS BILLY WATSON!!

Not me. LOL. it's an alias, too.

Great story though.

[billywatson]

You are the only person that can answer that question...

I dunno about that...I've shot 300+ scenes, I used to submit and resell...but I've never had my own program...so there are some people I can go to, and you guys have been all really helpful. We're thinking the 5 - 10% number is gonna happen...just where exactly I dunno yet...

Thanks a ton you guys!

[Snake Doctor]

Want to be competative 10%

I have a few webmaster referrals making me a nice chunk of change but I recently checked my stats and overall I would have done better with $200 per active (5 sales)

You know what's bad about that is if you're getting 10% and your referrals did a collective $2000 a month you would get $200 every month.
Just goes to show how little traffic most people can push.

[billywatson]

You know what's bad about that is if you're getting 10% and your referrals did a collective $2000 a month you would get $200 every month.
Just goes to show how little traffic most people can push.

Great point! Totally true...

[chadglni]

You know what's bad about that is if you're getting 10% and your referrals did a collective $2000 a month you would get $200 every month.
Just goes to show how little traffic most people can push.

Either that or they send some traffic and decide that program converts for shit?

[NaughtyRob]

5% - 10%

Anything less than 5 is a waste of time.

[RuthB]

If you're in two minds about what kind of %, then why not start at the lower figure and if that doesn't invite much interest you could always bump it up and make it a promotion of some kind.

This would then give you the flexibility to change your %'s in the future, AND get more coverage for your program because you'd be posting on the boards about the webmaster referral % increase.

Just my

Good luck with your launch!

[Snake Doctor]

Either that or they send some traffic and decide that program converts for shit?

sure but if it converts for shit, I doubt they'll send 4, 8, or 10 sales or whatever is required to get the $200 flat referral fee either.

[billywatson]

If you're in two minds about what kind of %, then why not start at the lower figure and if that doesn't invite much interest you could always bump it up and make it a promotion of some kind.

This would then give you the flexibility to change your %'s in the future, AND get more coverage for your program because you'd be posting on the boards about the webmaster referral % increase.

Just my

Good luck with your launch!

Thanks so much!! Best advice yet!!!

[Michael O]

You know what's bad about that is if you're getting 10% and your referrals did a collective $2000 a month you would get $200 every month.
Just goes to show how little traffic most people can push.

I did a check at a couple of sponsors:
Sunnydollars I've made $125 or so from my referrals if they had the $250 per active I would have made $750
PimpRoll I've made $80 or so at $200 per active I would have made $1000.
Topbucks I've made $2,500 if it were per active I would have made $200

But I'll take anything I can get its "free" money

[Michael O]

I get $3.5 at Topbucks per referred sale others pay $1.05 and some partnership programs I get $.07 per trial :D

I run see-sig.com and its interesting to see which programs webmasters sign up for some programs have I have 30+ referred others 0.