Quote Originally Posted by Paco View Post
How many webmasters do you think would go for this: until a referral (member) is fully done with us (cancelled and moved on), they are not paid out. Webmasters will receive payment after the exact worth of that referral has calculated.
Something like:

sign-up value - expenses (BW, support etc) + agreed % of up sells

if anything, THAT will create a more equal playing field. Problem is, WTF is going to accept that?
That is kind of, not exactly, but kind of how the old 'active member' business model of payouts used to work, if a member renewed past the initial sale, the affiliate got paid, if they renewed again, they got paid a little more, so on and so forth.

Needless to say, i cant think of any sponsors that spring to mind immediately that are still using this payout model but, it WAS extremely profitable for the program owners.

The other business model that i really liked was the PPC business model, an affiliate sent traffic to a site and was paid a flat rate for each unique click, usually in the range of $0.03 to $0.10 per click and, if they didnt make a certain sales ratio on their traffic (usually below 1:400) they were automatically moved to the PPS business model.

The amount of affiliates i know (myself included) that utilized this payout option was huge, we could send all of our crappy traffic to a PPC sponsor and get paid more than we would by sending it directly to a PPS or revshare program. Unfortunately, people started abusing that payout model a lot and it seems to have died away

Regards,

Lee