I-affiliate, yes it is sending to someone else. That's also why you try and pick a crossell not in your niche. If you have an asian site you may do a crossell to an uncut site. Or if you have a strboy site you may do a crossell to a live cam site or a mega site etc. That's the idea. That's why some sites do not do it.

A crossell does not really work well in a rev share business model.

The whole idea with crossells is part of a plan that many per signup programs use to determine the payout they can offer.

Many factors are involved to make a site profitable.

1. What is the actual membership to the site worth. (Conversion from trial and length of membership determine this)
2. The email address on a two part signup form is woth $x.xx
3. The email address off a customer that joined is worth $x.xx
4. The discount offered after a member cancels is worth $x.xx
5. The Exit traffic is worth $x.xx
6. The crossell is worth $x.xx

ALL of these combined determine the true value of a member to a persignup operator.

I know of some persignup programs a couple years back that had 2 cross sells checked and when you got an email saying thanks for joining, if you clicked the link to another offer in the email you were offered another site (a celeb site).

The whole business model is such that you try and make as much money off your site without relying on actual conversions and retention to your own site, that you can still be profitable.

Offering a crossell if you are doing a lot of signups a day gives you and opportunity to goto a big site thats generating a lot of signups a swell and say i will put your site as a cross sell if you put my site. If you are both generating about the same amount of signups a day, then its a fair deal, you will get equal signups from each other. Plus from regular webmasters who market your site you will make additional one shot revenue and not worry if they cancel.

Used in a revshare model you are forced to pretty much send it to a site in your own program. If i send my traffic to a rev share and they cross promote a site i dont nmake money on I will stop sending traffic. But if its a per signup I send traffic to i dont give a rats ass if they sell another membership. Its usually the sites that do heavy cross promoting that pay the most.

I believed it was Intense cash that dropped payouts from 40 to 30 when they stopped cross promoting.

Trust me in a Rev Share business model it makes no sense to cross sell to your own sites. the chance that the surfer may go in and cancel one and see both pop up and decide to cancel both far outweighs the advantage of the small traial price you get. It just doesn't work.

It tried it on both my paysites. The only time it worked was on my asian one which was a personal cam site. I cross sold the asian video site I created as the cam site just had pics and a webcam. The vidoe site complimented it as it just had videos. I really wanted to maintain a high retention on the cam site and felt that by offering the right price I could. If they wanted the videos it was extra.

On the other paysite I did it on it was a disaster. When they canceled the trial site I sold, they canceled the site they joined in the first place and vice versa. It lasted two weeks.

Just my experience, yours may differ.