although what you say is all too often true, any program with a great member area that retains on average over two months can easily afford to pay out $30 on a $24.95 signup - especially if they have an exit console and a few nice upsells in the member area. i promote several revshare sites where i make $45 - $60 per join.

besides, programs like nastydollars don't pay for the trials if the trial member cancels immediately. i was pleasantly surprised how few DID cancel immediately :-)

Quote Originally Posted by xenigo
Anyone offering payouts that exceed the billing price isn't playing the quality game, but strategizing more along the lines of "we'll shave the webmaster, and jerk the surfer through 10,000,000 exit consoles, cross sells, and have a members area that consists purely of upsells."

I think you can tell a lot about a program just by what their payout price is. More isn't necessarily better. I'd say higher payouts basically translates to "our site sucks, and we need more traffic to throw at it to make it convert, so we're willing to pay you more to get you in the door and send traffic". So higher payouts don't necessarily mean you'll make more money promoting someone. Just means you'll see more webmasters trying to send them traffic, despite being complete shit quality.

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