Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
without having all of those things, raised payouts, hosted whatevers, etc (including the moon on a stick) potential affiliates arent even going to look at a program because that is the mindset that we [the industry] have bred in to affiliates these days, they want high payouts, they want hosted whatevers, they want instant payouts, they want, want, want...
Precisely.

I've received some rather venomous private messages on this board in the past, even, when someone was interested in promoting us and wanted free content and I told them I could not provide them with that. Or told them I could not continue to provide them with free content because, after letting them have it for several months, I didn't see enough of a return from it.

Like we don't have a right to be very careful about how, where, or by whom our content is displayed.

We've never offered FHGs from the get go because I've always felt they risk diluting the value of a site's content. You get people running to the boards to thrash ya in a post about how you wouldn't give them free content and they're then joined by a chorus of "Goodness! Any sponsor that is not willing to do anything and everything to help affiliates doesn't deserve sales!".

"Goodness! Any sponsor that is not willing to do anything and everything to help affiliates doesn't deserve sales!" - Do a little digging and you can probably find dozens of times that statement - or a statement to that effect - has been said on this board alone.

We are not willing to do anything and everything to help 1400 affiliates get sales because, quite frankly, what they might be requesting and demanding could actually hurt us more than help us. For a select group of affiliates, however, we can offer quite a great deal because we're able to look at them and easily see any investment with that affiliate will produce great returns.