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Originally Posted by MadMax
I'll preface this by saying I've never run or been part of running a program.
I've read and been part of lots of discussions involving PPS, and this is what I've seen a ton of sponsors do/say they did:
Start out as revshare only and pay on rebills. If you're not making money on a given webmaster's traffic then neither do they, and that way you can't lose your ass on affiliate sales by making a bad decision on PPS payout. After you've run for a few months and can really crunch the numbers to determine what you can afford to pay PPS, if it's a number at or over $20 start offering PPS then. Also bear in mind that many sponsors pay less on console free PPS than with consoles, and that doesn't seem to bother anyone a bit. We all know that without consoles a sponsor makes less on our traffic.
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Great point but some background is necessary to answer...
From our time with with CE, we came in knowing what our retention and conversions were and where our kind of high pricing would perform. We also knew that we were making most of the traffic and did not need or want to pay recurring for the reasons you correctly describe. So that is why we started with simply paying on converted trial signups. And like I said, we have heard from more than a few that they are doing better with us now than ever before.
The problem is that perception of a high payout on trials but which is elusive I feel due to those traffic syphoning consoles and other tricks of the trade like inexplicable credits, etc.
So I guess I shouldn't really make any announcement about it and our webmasters will just be making more money than they were before... seems like the best course since the payment for trials might be mispercieved.