X Bang Cash - changes from pps to revenue share

Jim · 2005-04-06, 12:33 PM

Lee, there are a lot of ways to make PPS work. But the bottom line is you have to be prepared to lose a ton of money the first few months.

Lunatic · 2005-04-06, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim

Lee, there are a lot of ways to make PPS work. But the bottom line is you have to be prepared to lose a ton of money the first few months.

Like not offer revshare at all and pay a high PPS commision to attract and retain webmasters. Then the sponsor keeps all the recurring for themselves. There's at least one major sponsor that's done this exact thing, and they used to have revshare as an option.

kalle7 · 2005-04-06, 02:15 PM

Hi LeeNoga,

Thank you for your post and the effort to try to explain the situation with XBC. I do understand that you are not in charge and that you have not made the decisions that have taken place during the last two days. I accept your apology, but first of all it seems like it is not your appologiy that would be in place and for the second apologies don’t pay my bills.

I would appreciate if you would take this message and bring it on to the ones that are in charge of XBC cause the way they have messed up things for webmasters they should really have posted their apology and explanation in person.

It is very strange for me to see how XBC have been sending out signals in the last couple of months how well things were going and how the company would continue to succeed in the future, but suddenly XBC is on the edge of bankrupsy because the pps model did not work as planned. Giving one days notice for changing the pps program to revenue share model is hardly any time at all when webmasters have been hard at work for months to get the marketing tools up for sending you all the traffic they can. Some signals of this development surely must have appeared on an earlier stage so that more proper actions could have been taken.

I really don’t see that hurtful things has been posted, but harsh critic you have to expect when the company turns over from pps to revenue share with one days notice. Most webmasters are working hard to get a pay check they can live by at the end of each month cause we are "common folks" and changing the terms so drastically is not a very good way to say “thank you for the support” or “continue the good work”. Actually I would rather call it very unprofessional and I don’t see that change because the program goes from pps to revenue share.

Quote - “But I want to believe XBC had no choice or chance to plan a smoother transition”. I really hope that they had a choice to plan a smoother transaction cause if they did not, then it only witness about a company without any financial control. And it would also confirm my earlier suspicion that this decision is made in a hurry caused by panic.

I am a bit surprised to see that XBC has gone from 11 individual sites with pps to combining each site with the content from 6 additional XBC sites in the revenue share model. Would it not have been an idea to test that out for the pps model when XBC noticed that there were not enough content on each of the individual sites alone to retain the members? But instead of trying out other solutions for retaining members XBC decides that it would be better to change the terms for the webmasters that sends the traffic that any program is dependent on to survive. Again it shows me that XBC is not a company that will be interesting for me personally to promote in the future cause they take the easy way out of problems by changing other peoples terms, instead of using a bit of imagination to solve the problem internally within XBC where the real problem obvious still exists.

2005-04-06, 12:33 PM	#1
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	Lee, there are a lot of ways to make PPS work. But the bottom line is you have to be prepared to lose a ton of money the first few months.

2005-04-06, 02:15 PM	#3
kalle7 Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Here and there... Posts: 182	Hi LeeNoga, Thank you for your post and the effort to try to explain the situation with XBC. I do understand that you are not in charge and that you have not made the decisions that have taken place during the last two days. I accept your apology, but first of all it seems like it is not your appologiy that would be in place and for the second apologies don’t pay my bills. I would appreciate if you would take this message and bring it on to the ones that are in charge of XBC cause the way they have messed up things for webmasters they should really have posted their apology and explanation in person. It is very strange for me to see how XBC have been sending out signals in the last couple of months how well things were going and how the company would continue to succeed in the future, but suddenly XBC is on the edge of bankrupsy because the pps model did not work as planned. Giving one days notice for changing the pps program to revenue share model is hardly any time at all when webmasters have been hard at work for months to get the marketing tools up for sending you all the traffic they can. Some signals of this development surely must have appeared on an earlier stage so that more proper actions could have been taken. I really don’t see that hurtful things has been posted, but harsh critic you have to expect when the company turns over from pps to revenue share with one days notice. Most webmasters are working hard to get a pay check they can live by at the end of each month cause we are "common folks" and changing the terms so drastically is not a very good way to say “thank you for the support” or “continue the good work”. Actually I would rather call it very unprofessional and I don’t see that change because the program goes from pps to revenue share. Quote - “But I want to believe XBC had no choice or chance to plan a smoother transition”. I really hope that they had a choice to plan a smoother transaction cause if they did not, then it only witness about a company without any financial control. And it would also confirm my earlier suspicion that this decision is made in a hurry caused by panic. I am a bit surprised to see that XBC has gone from 11 individual sites with pps to combining each site with the content from 6 additional XBC sites in the revenue share model. Would it not have been an idea to test that out for the pps model when XBC noticed that there were not enough content on each of the individual sites alone to retain the members? But instead of trying out other solutions for retaining members XBC decides that it would be better to change the terms for the webmasters that sends the traffic that any program is dependent on to survive. Again it shows me that XBC is not a company that will be interesting for me personally to promote in the future cause they take the easy way out of problems by changing other peoples terms, instead of using a bit of imagination to solve the problem internally within XBC where the real problem obvious still exists.