I have said why it matters. There are a finite amount of sales to be had when marketing to Clickbank merchants and if every sale is only 50% of the revenue than that is not optimal. Of course, I cherish my affiliates and do not want to stop working with them, that is not my point. I simply do not want everyone to get a discount. If the price should be 50% less then that is the way I would market it. To get this 50% back by raising the price (if this is the only solution) is really not the way I want to approach it, which is why I made the post.

And, if a general inquiry that may benefit the masses to a board of fellow online marketers sounds desperate to you, then you must think us all a bunch of novice whiners. What's up with that? And I've been dabbling online for a few years now, ready to launch two new s/w apps. When these are ready I will be glad to share the info.

Thanks for all the insight so far everyone!

> There are people out here in cyber-land who
> encourage people to become an affiliate and
> then to buy through their own affiliate
> name. And these are well-known
> cyber-marketers.

> Why?

> Because it increases sales. More sales means
> more customers. More customers means a
> bigger customer list of people who have
> actually bought. And that bodes well for
> future back-end sales.

> Your cost is effectively zero. So what if
> you don't make as much money per sale? You
> get something better... more customers!
> Besides... 50% of a sale is better than 100%
> of a no-sale.

> Your post has a note of desperation in it
> (that is how it comes across to me).
> Something I would not expect from an
> experienced marketer or business owner, so I
> deduce you are relatively new to the world
> of business. Thus I am curious. What is it
> you sell to these other Clickbank merchants?

> Michael Ross