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Originally Posted by stev0
I agree with you to an extent... but I use pretty much all sponsor content now. With the reality type niche's out now, it makes alot more sense to promote it with reality content that is also featured on those sites.
I've also bought over $30k worth of content, but I use that on my own sites. If i'm promoting your program and making 50% return, why should I use my content that isn't even featured on your site when other programs will give it away for free and it's more targetted?
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Then maybe sponsors should consider offering licenses for sale to affiliates, then they can just download the entire members areas
They want to anyway. Those licenses aren't cheap.
Using this method, if an affiliate of mine asks me why their ratio is climbing, my answer should be time to find the sponsor-of-the-week and join them like everyone else, and I dont accept that. Sometimes it's good to invest in a business rather than always expect more for free.
When I see sponsors not only allowing all of their content to go out on the web for free, unprotected, but even submitting their galleries for them. I have to ask why not hire 10 or 20 minimum wage people to run auto-submitters for 8 hours a day and close down the affiliate side.
Like you say, why not keep all of your bought content for your own site and just promote your own site with it? Will it be long before everyone does that? It's not so far-fetched and the slope only gets steeper.
Thats why the constant lean towards more more more for free concerns me as an affiliate.
As an affiliate rep, I'm happy to request more content when the free stuff is running low on freshness. But as an affiliate I know I'm not going to rely on it and then just pull up stakes everytime the sales slow down and move on to some other already bare pasture.