Personally, i would like to see payouts in the industry lowered overall, from revshare and PPS sponsors, unfortunately, we know that isnt going to happen until there is a massive shake-up of billing companies AND PPS sponsors by Visa or the government.

So long as we continue catering to the base denominator of free porn, more money, less work, more exclusive sites, free hosted *whatever*, etc etc, its not going to change, and guess what, its not going to get any easier either.

Is affiliate traffic worth 50% of a sale? Hell no.

Before replying i checked my affiliate stats, less than 25% of our total affiliates send regular sales, by regular i mean at least 1 sale a week, of that 25%, less than 10% send a regular sale, meaning at least 1 sale a day.

I would love to be able to pay affiliates on a sliding scale based on how many sales they actually send, send 1-10 sales, make 25%, send 11-20 sales make 30%, send 21-30 sales make 40%, etc but unfortunately, over the past 5 years we [program owners] have groomed affiliates in to beleiving that they are worth 50%+ per sale, and, that all they have to do is put up a few links to our FHGs and they will be rolling in cash within 24 hours of joining our programs.

Bottom line? Affiliates need to start realizing that they are getting paid above and beyond what they are 'actually' worth, especially looking at some of the traffic sources these people have.

As i said at the beginning of this post i really hope we do see a big shakeup of billing processors and PPS sponsors because until that happens, nothing is going to change and affiliates will start demanding more and more and more and more....

Regards,

Lee