Quote Originally Posted by desslock
Becky

I would disagree with that. Affiliates are payed to market. Hence the phrase affiliate marketing. In the adult business, companies cannot go the route CircuitCity.com or Target.com does to market its products. Adult companies cannot purchase ads on television, buy ads in newspapers, sell through an ebay store or in many cases advertise via google adwords. Therefore, the value of affiliate marketers to sell adult products is higher.

Consider it is a marketing expense.

Steve
Steve,

You seem to be mising the premise of Beckys post, her point was, by charging a surfer $40 to enter a site with $10 worth of content, is counter-productive.

The only reason the surfer HAS to pay $40 to enter the site is because webmasters demand more money from the program owners.

By catering to the webmaster, the program owner is actually screwing themselves in the long term, its simply not possible to pay $35-$40 for a $2.95 trial, each and every time, thats why PPS programs (and some revshare programs) have console chains, upsells, cross-sells, you name it, they have to recoup the money they paid the webmaster... Somehow.

To use an analogy you may be able to relate to...

If a movie cost $40 but only had 10 minutes of footage, would you buy it knowing that? More importantly, would you buy another movie of the same title for the same $40?

Regards,

Lee