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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Jan 12 2003, 10:25 PM
HellPuppy,
when my profit margins started to shrink at the mid 1999,
I increased shave factor...
is there any room TODAY to increase webmaster' shave?
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Serge,
There's absolutely no doubt that pumping up the shave to make the numbers work is a practice that is alive and well.
And as I've been saying for years, dont count stats, count the checks. I dont care what the formula for payout is or whether it's shaved or not, I send a given amount of a certain type of traffic and get $X in return. Whichever sponsor makes the value of that $X the greatest gets the traffic.
Unfortunately the performance changes so rapidly right now that I'm convinced many are changing the shave dynamically...if not randomly. A program may convert well for one two week period and then convert for shit the next even though the tour, the processor and the traffic are all consistent. It's almost like chasing a hot stock, prior performance is not necessarily an indication of future results!
As for room to shave more, that depends on the program. There are definitely some out there shaving everyone smooth as a baby's ass already IMO. There's a point there where it makes no financial sense to send any traffic to a program, and you're better served to build your own paysites to feed your traffic to.
But hey, there'll always be a couple of thousand newbies willing to send any large program tons of TGP traffic from The Hun no matter what. You just end up with a broth with lots of water in your soup and not a lot of meat!