Quote Originally Posted by pocoloco78 View Post
I think that some sponsors see affaliates as "just" a traffic source. Affiliates are actually your salesguys and they put in a lot of time and effort to sell your product. I think the 50% is very fair. Affiliates have to invest in domains, software, writing salestext, etc...
PocoLoco - Right on! "traffic" is part of the weird jargon that still puzzles me in the adult industry. When I worked for Dell sales, the company would place back cover ads in PCWorld. When that made the phones ring, we didn't call that "traffic"

"Hey Steve, there's traffic coming in.... answer the phone please!"

That was never uttered. Ads generated leads. And sales reps turned them into customers. Customers is another seldom spoken word. In the dehumanized jargon we send conversions, not create customers.

Steve