Innovation in billing for paysites?

[cj]

Originally posted by BradShaw@Sep 25 2003, 12:11 PM
I think the idea of a $10 join is decent, but the $40 cross sell kills things.

My concern is this. Lets take Lens program for example. Say you send traffic to the 10$ ebony site with a $25 payout, and also traffic to his $40 per trial ebony site.

Do we really think that the conversions are going to be 2x better on the $10 site to justify the lower payout of $25 (of course the $25 payout is inflated by the $40 cross sell)? I do not think so, I think they would be about the same, or even better on the site with a trial of $3-4. Surfers are not economists. From my perspective of sending out traffic, the $10 sites are not a good solution, unless my #'s are very wrong.

unless lens is simply trying to build up a big enough database of $10 recurring transactions to 'lower' existing chargebacks by 1st october ... by presenting it as a gimmick and getting the gfy kids involved he's guaranteed himself several thousand transactions at the lower rate of $10 - keeping processing after october 1st is priority for lots of us at the moment - i just wonder what happens on october 1st to the company buying the cross-sells & in turn, what happens to lenmans business model - i doubt there's going to be lots of companies jumping up to buy $30+ cross-sells off other paysite companies after october 1st ...

is the trick to 1% chargebacks processing a lot more smaller dollar value transactions? if so, how do we turn $30 or $40 per month into 3 or 4 (or as many as possible) transactions without sacrificing the dollar value?

Weekly Memberships

We are all so stuck in the concept of monthly billing, monthly updating, monthly payouts ... & our entire business models for our paysites are based on paying affiliates an acceptable amount - eventually the affiliates will have no choice but to take less money - unless lensman has deep enough pockets to pay $25 for $10 for ever ...