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Originally posted by dig420
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Fetishbucks reseller #### sends us X amount of hits, gets 39 trials and 3 initial joins as full members. For this we pay him 1470.00 at $35.00 per join. 13 of those trials convert to full members, which along with the 3 initial joins means we made in the first month from this traffic:
$193.05 from the trial joins 39x35
$639.20 from the 16 full members 16x39.95
for a total so far of $832.40

assume that 50% of those members will be around next month. Add 416.20 to that total. Further assume that 50% of the remaining members will be around for ANOTHER month and add another 208.10 to the total. So far we have made 1664.80 from this traffic. Throw in another couple signups and subsequent recurrings on exit console sales, PLUS about $225.00 at least from cross-sells and our total has moved even higher. In the end we'll make about 2k and change on our initial payout of $1470.00 for a profit of around $530.00 on this small amount of traffic.

You can pay $35.00 per, and we do, and not shave. The trick is to be very vigilant about your traffic and watch for chargebacks, unproductive traffic etc. and kill these accounts quick. An honest webmaster + an honest program = money and happiness for both, but these days honesty is getting harder and harder to come by...

I have a problem with a couple of your numbers there.
You've billed a total of 1664.80 from the traffic using the percentages you listed. But you didn't account for processing fees (let's say 13.5%?) plus at least another 2.5% for refunds and chargebacks. (And we won't even go into what % of fraud you get hit with before you catch it and stop paying the webmaster)

1664.80 - 16% = 1398.44 and you paid out $1470.
Now when you add in the cross sales and exits you'll go into the black, but then you have hosting fees, content and leased feed expense, salaries to pay, design expense for your tours and banners etc etc etc.

I'm not saying anything bad about your program, I've never used it. But if you're going to come in and post numbers don't make it sound better than it really is, tell the whole story.