Visa Says Bye Bye to Cross Sales

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by Far-L

lol, and I am sure you are not talking about any A,B,C or Dee company out there... so let's just establish that first.

I agree with where you are going with that and word winging on the wind did say some big names would shutter up, but those kind of "amalgam of programs previously purchased" programs should never be doubted for their ability to exploit loopholes. All the merchant bank blacklists, negative legislation, and of course the evil tubes in the world are not about to change that.

I do agree. Some of the sites I am thinking have dropped the cross sales, but have shifted the default membership selection on their join page to one time, high dollar 6 month or 1 year memberships. I looked at one site (old solo girl site) that was set to $80 for a 6 month membership. While that isn't a really high price, it is pretty much the same net money as 3+ months of recurring, which most programs can't pull off. Certainly an amateur site that is recycling old content isn't going to see that sort of recur very often.

At the end of the day, the real rewards appear to be for the companies that continue to turn out fresh content, new sites, maybe even new concepts (or at least recycle concepts that are old enough to be new again). Those programs continue to generate real long term business that will allow the program owners (and webmasters promoting them) to make money for a long time to come.