Don't blame the newbies! Your thoughts?

[voodooman]

Originally posted by Tonda_WEGCash@Jun 24 2003, 06:53 PM
I personally think part of the problem stems from the price we are charging for a paysite these days. Since I have been in this industry I have seen prices go from $9.95 per month to now upwards of $39.95 per month. This does not include cross sales which have become so popular. If a surfer takes the cross sales they are looking at upwards of $100 per month in charges.

In my opinion, this is why retention sucks. Why did we get to this point? My opinion is that the affiliate wars began and the price being paid out per signup kept rising and in order to pay webmasters the price for the surfer had to increase.

Here is food for thought...what if the "who could pay the most" war never happened and we were still at a $19.95 or a $29.95 membership....do you think we would be making more or less money???

I agree with Tonda.

As everything drops, prices for memberships go up.

Content, way cheaper than when I started in 98.
Domains, way cheaper
hosting, way cheaper, etc....

I still put up free porn, but look for that to end soon too.
Submitting gallerys these days is like playing craps.
It doesnt matter how nice or well designed your gallery
is, unless your a prefered partner, 85% chance its getting
kicked, and if your like me, I dont use autosubmitters, I build
everything by hand, even the 100 recip pages, and cater to
each of the tgps, as they all have different rules, and still
I have a 80-85% site kick.

TGP's are starting, or have thier own paysites, which they utilize
hosted gallerys, instead of webmaster submissions, so the common
webmaster, or 'newbies' will fall to the wayside soon, IMO.