PPS or Revshare?
When you grab the affiliate links to place on your site, you sometimes have a choice between PPS (Pay per sale) or Revshare (usually 60% on the initial sale + renewals).
Revshare obviously looks better in an ideal world. Getting money as long as the membership is renewed is great. BUT sometimes the customers don’t renew the membership, and you have to take that into consideration. 60% of a 3.95$ trial membership that is not renewed is not much, while getting a 35$ PPS commission for the same signup is far better !
The choice depends on the quality of the site you promote. Some sites are very good at making customers happy, and the laters won’t unsubscribe. Some other sites are lame and boring and customers usually leave and don’t renew. You don’t want a revshare option with them.
My advice is to always try revhare first, when available. Give it a try for a few months, and check the renewal ratio. If it’s bad, switch to the PPS option immediately !
Some sites have a 1$ trial, with a 30$ PPS for the webmaster. That may look like a good deal for you, because many visitors will spend 1$ to try the site, and you’ll get 30$ each time. But this usually means that the convert ratio is good, because poor content sites don’t offer that option. If most of the customers unsubscribe, they’d lose money if they pay you 30$ for a 1$ signup.
Now, is it a good idea to send your visitors to sites that have a bad content ? I don’t think so, because we don’t want visitors to think that they pay for crap, when they can download good content illegally, for free. So as far as I’m concerned, I always try to send my visitors to high-quality sites, with revshare programs.
The programs I prefer are LucasPays, BelAmi, GunzBlazing, BuddyProfits. I use only Revshare with them, and my commissions are growing every month !