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Heh. I'm kicking myself for not staying with photography! I took several photog. courses in college and was pretty good at it. I even won a few amateur photographer awards in Kansas City.
Because now that I promote For Women programs, I see that we don't have enough content.
If I would have stuck with it, I could shoot content for these programs and make a business out of it. Not an extraordinary lucrative one, but decent enough to justify doing it.
My photography was more artsy-fartsy anyway. Like B&W autospy tables (long story).
I admire you Paul.Comment
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With all the BS many paysites are pulling on affiliates, they are kinda forcing affiliates to start their own paysites.Comment
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i'd say 10% will actually become profitable paysite owners in the future. i've thought about it myself, i think i have some great domain names for paysites and some fairly original ideas but i doubt i would ever go the affiliate program route. simply too much work and too many employees needed.you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..Comment
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im sure alot already have...Comment
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So let me see if I have this right.
The whales have the most important thing (traffic) and sell it to the people with something of less value (paysites/content).
Great logic.
Bottom line is if all you have is traffic it's costing you money, until you sell it.
Who will pay more for it, the guy with a paysite or the guy without? And please do not come back with a clever answer, the buyer who can't monetise the traffic is never going to have the money to spend, the traffic that can't be turned into money is not worth buying.Comment
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I am not talking about affiliates running affiliate programs. I asked about affiliates opening a paysite or paysites. Never asked about running programs.Comment
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nice gene!I used to think that was the natural progression but being a good affiliate and a good program owner are two completely different things. Each job has a different management level. Also, owning a program involves being: content manager, promotions manager, webmaster support manager, fraud detective, and server security guard. Sure, many of these tasks can be outsourced but being a program owner definitely means a major STEP UP in terms of effort and vigilance. Not all affiliates have the time or inclination to put in that effort when they are already doing quite well by being affiliates.
Just my 2 cents on this matter
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The company who needs traffic will pay the most for it - and that doesn´t always mean a paysite. Is Google thinking about getting more traffic to sell or building paysites for their traffic?
Find something you are good at, and run with it... a paysite is not the holy grail in this business - there are companies and people making millions without owning paysites!Comment
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Well I am a photographer and affiliate and hope to have my own program up in 2007!Comment
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Content is king, but traffic is gold!Comment
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I see site owners as long term thinkers, the more joins you get to you own site the more recurring members you have the more money you make. The PPS model made the affiliate used to the easy cash, but also cuts them out of the long term profit that is made running the site. Its a double edged sword, if you have large traffic you can make a ton of cash from PPS, if you have a great site you can make a ton of money with your member base.
I enjoy running sites, I enjoy shooting content, so being a site owner was a natural thing for me. I have had to learn the traffic game, and I have huge respect for guys like Sleazy, The Hun, Shemp, Green Guy, and Worldsex because they can dictate the PPS market with the traffic they have built over the years.Busty Amateurs - the original girls and and tons more busty amateurs.Comment
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