Anyone Ever Paid By Colt Cash???

[AleXrated]

Let's cooperate, guys.
Coltmakes pretty good stuff, but they can't act this way with webmasters. We have to do ssomething about that.

[tim460]

A very successful webmaster and producer told to be really careful dealing with companies that don't use trusted and reliable places such as CCBill and Epoch. If a company is going to pay you by themselves, they sometimes are late, or lie about the correct amount of money they owe you. I'm not saying that Colt is one of these types of companies. It just depends on the company. However, after years of dealing with outrageous hassles, the guy who told me this made a decision to never deal with a company that doesn't use an agency that is well-known for being reliable. As I'm new to all this, this thread is interesting and useful.

[basschick]

funny because the most successful webmasters i know - real whales - prefer to get paid direct, not via ccbill or epoch. also funny because one can generally get paid per sale only via the company, not via ccbill or epoch and also because one generally makes the highest amounts of sales with full cascading (as i recall, epoch doesn't allow ccbill to be first in the cascade, although i could be wrong).

and let's not forget that a lot of programs only average 1.5 or 2 months retention, or have a low-cost trial with only 20 or 25% conversion, which means there's literally no chance with them you'll make as much money as pay per signup.

there are many many programs like ars who are very flexible and not only pay on time but more frequently - weekly, in their case. i prefer a mix of ccbill/epoch revshare and pps.

A very successful webmaster and producer told to be really careful dealing with companies that don't use trusted and reliable places such as CCBill and Epoch. If a company is going to pay you by themselves, they sometimes are late, or lie about the correct amount of money they owe you. I'm not saying that Colt is one of these types of companies. It just depends on the company. However, after years of dealing with outrageous hassles, the guy who told me this made a decision to never deal with a company that doesn't use an agency that is well-known for being reliable. As I'm new to all this, this thread is interesting and useful.

[tim460]

funny because the most successful webmasters...
prefer a mix of ccbill/epoch revshare and pps.

That's interesting and glad to hear more about this.

[basschick]

er... like what?

many revshare sites don't actually retain that well, but some do. the ones that retain well it makes sense to promote as revshare. ones that don't, or that pay well for PPS (pay per sale), it makes sense to promote as PPS. a mix of both revshare and PPS means that when things slow down, one's income is regularized by rebills but the sites that sell well and retain so-so you make the most from by getting paid for each sale.

with cascading, when a sale is declined, that surfer is given a chance to join through another processor. also with full cascading where the program owner controls which processor is the primary, on days when there are connectivity or slowing problems with their usual primary processor the owner can switch to the other processor and avoid missing sales. cascading usually adds up to around 10% more money.

the thing is to experiment till you have your perfect balance so that each site you sell well is making you the most money per click.

btw, many programs will bump up payouts for those with a lot of traffic or sales. if you send lots of sales, chances are you can get PPS up $5 to $10 per sale for a lot of programs and revshare up to 60%.

That's interesting and glad to hear more about this.