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Originally posted by cj@Feb 13 2003, 03:00 AM
Mike, the important factor to success of a project like this is not allowing it to be an 'open application' where anyone can run a program. From my limited knowledge of their specifics, I believe that all program 'operators' have been hand selected up to a point.
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Bingo cj. Can you imagine what would happen if this was open to everyone and their dog? It could very well turn into a nightmare. All the foreign spammers with their rape tours would be filling our inboxes with babenet stuff.
I, myself, considered this a good "temporary" idea for starting a couple paysites with cheap overhead with the intent of changing to your own members area once a good amount of money was accumulated. The problem with that is your affiliates would have to change all their codes. Then again, it could still work if your operation was "controlled". We all know a program can survive with a handful of good traffic senders vs. hundreds of smaller webmasters anyway.
The program owner is in a killer position with not only control over the designs of their sites, their own consoles, AND correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe they can keep the email list that is gathered.
God I love emails.
Anyway, it IS very important to know exactly who is following this model so we don't end up unintentionally put all our eggs in one basket. The joins we have accumulated through babenet backend sites have been better than the programs without. So, it's very important to pay close attention "just in case" something happens.
I'm shocked that no one is mentioning the other company/companies that are doing this same thing. Everyone keeps talking about ARS but that isn't the same because they are not letting their webmasters run entire affiliate programs, just individual sites.
You know, for some reason this reminds me of being on the Netpond newbie board when I started out and the big thing was to mass produce as many free sites, avs, and tgps all pointing to the same program. Now I guess mass producing front ends with little thought or care for what happens after the sale is the "thing to do".
I'm not necessarily for or against. Just intrigued