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Originally Posted by graphicsbytia
I'm going to bring up something that's on my mind, and the reason I started this poll in the first place.
I have a problem with selling non-exclusive content to sponsors who will turn around and give it away free to affiliates for promotion. We've never allowed this, because I feel that it's a disservice to the webmasters who've paid for the same content.
Paul, I know you've had some experience trying to deal with this problem, I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, and also would like to hear some input and suggestions from others.
I would love to be able to sell non-exclusive content to paysites and let them use the content for promotion. Is there a way to protect the webmaster's investment and sell to paysites who give out free content at the same time?
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The simple truth today is, for every one sponsor who will buy a set to give to 500 affilaites there is an affiliate who will buy it because it's not with 500 other guys.
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why not charge more for an affiliate content license?
or only offer your older stuff as affiliate content?
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You would think that would work in theory, but here again is the hard truth.
Few sponsors value the free content they give to affiliates enough to pay extra for it, in fact most of them think they should get a massive discount. They don't worry that 10 other sponsors have the same stuff and giving it to affiliates.
There are exceptions and I'm painting it with a broad brush, but the bottom line is one webmaster will never saturate a set as much as 100.
And the sponsors accuse us of selling saturated content.
