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[NY Jester]

Originally Posted by UglyDaz

Any help beyond telling me to give it up as a bad job and resign myself to just reselling other people's crap will be welcomed thanks.
Help and advice generally means "assistance in moving forward" not showing someone the exit sign.

I dont believe anyone was really offering you an exit sign. What was said to you is, in order to best sell your own sites is to have sold someone else's first. Most of us are affiliates to many programs and many of us are paysite owners but thats only after understanding how traffic, and being an affiliate actually worked. You talk about not knowing what an affiliate wants..its because you yourself have never been one. You dont know what it takes to attract affiliates, what tools are best at making tools...but yet you seem to downplay that aspect of it. You seem to not want to open your sites up for affiliates, all the best with that. Because in today's market there are 1000 sites JUST like yours that have 1500 affiliates selling for them. No one is shunning you. It was an offered piece of advice. I'd say another piece of advice would be to not take any enlightenment to heart personally.

I might add, that many of us, who have "resigned" ourselves to selling other peoples crap...do pretty well. So I ask that you not come here and insult what we have chose to do either.