Ok.

When I raised my price by $5 it helped actually. But others will say different.

As for trials on Revshare forget it. It's just not worth it.

BassChick I you didn't give enough information. Seriously.

I mean what is the site's business model as far as processing/traffic leaks? What is the niche.

If it's ANOTHER Twink or MegaSite then for me to market it would have to be 80%. If it's a docking website. I will market for 10%. Maybe i will be the only one that signs up but I will send a 1000 or so members.

The ultimate goal of any business is to make money. To some the only way to get signups is via an affiliate program. If that is the case and they can't generate their own traffic they may have to raise payouts to get webmasters. They will need a steady stream of income.

From past experience I have found that there are two levels of webmasters.
1. Those who signup and send a trickle of sugnups here and there.
2. Those that aggressively market your site in a niche they are familiar with and have lots of traffic. These guys are the ones you want.

My last two paysites I had an affiliate program by invitation only. At most I had 10 affiliates in each site. To be honest, each affiliate pretty much had a different rate. I know I was paying per signup to a few. To one person I was paying 80% recurring for life just because he ran a tgp and I wanted him to dump my main competitor so I could get the spot. Didin't really make any money on the joins but I am sure the competition felt the heat. And I got upsells in the members area.

You need to remember that any time you get someone to put a banner up for your site and NOT someone elses you get a chance to grow and take away business from a competitor.

When deteriming the standard payout % you can take into account things like.
1. Are there traffic leaks.
2. Is there a cross-sell (which I hate when someone does a cross sell if I am marketing a Rev share program)
3. Is there geo tracking that the original webmaster is not getting paid for?
4. Is the original refering webmaster getting paid for check, 900, dialer and any other of these?
5. What does the paysite realistically think the upsells in the members area will be. On my asian paysite it was considerable.

If the paysite owner has any of these, then the payout can be increased to attract more webmasters.

The most profitable situations are going to be deals that he or she works out with high traffic sites that can actually generate a decent amount of sales. As the Mastercard commercial says, the value of these webmasters is PRICELESS!