Huskyhunks - it's very easy to keep up with the bigger companies because their sites are terrible. they make their money from upsells, cross sales and exit sales. i think the problem here is that smaller webmasters feel that's wrong to do and then compare themselves.

a lot of the bigger programs don't want to make sales - they want to make exit sales because they don't have to pay affiliates for those. and with epoch, you can cross sell on cancellation, too, so big programs make money in every facet except - ironically - rebills.

of course, there are sites like randyblue that don't - but they're not really the multi-million dollar operation that topbucks or ce is. they have LOTS of a high quality product and enough updates to make people have something to look forward to. they don't have tiny updates - like a small part of a video - or less frequent updates.