Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
The reason? Because a lot of these revshare program owners think they can open a program, make a post or two on the boards, offer FHGs, free sites, banners, blogs, etc etc and affiliates will promote them, thus contributing to what we're discussing here. It has become a staple of programs to do whatever their affiliates ask of them, to the point where now, if you launch a program without FHGs, nobody is going to promote you.

The other problem these programs are going to start seeing in the next few days is that if they dont have their own stable base of webmaster traffic, even if they offer affiliates the moon on a stick, they are still going to fail, because they are competing with the other 1000 affiliate programs offering the moon on a stick, in the same pool of affiliates.
Well, we agree then And it's the sheer availablility of too many programs at this point that makes for such a hard competition between program owners. It makes them offer the moon on a stick, like you said, including increasinly high payouts too. And it's the wrong way to go, IMHO, because it attracts the wrong kind of affiliates to your program to begin with.

I have sponsors that offer little in terms of FHG's and banners, yes they offer kick-ass sites that convert and retain. Guess what? I'm promoting them more and more.