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Old 05-22-2011, 11:48 PM  
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Originally Posted by lagcam View Post
Will makes some very good points about the obstacles facing a new site, but the reality is that the single biggest problem a new or growing website will encounter will be the working capital requirement.

On average, I have physically received into my accounts the revenue from only 2 or 3 of the 15 or 16 days in the period before I have to pay them out which means that the better we do, the more I have to fund from my reserves.

Now I know somebody (probably Mitch) will reply that the answer to that is simple. Get a merchant account with daily payouts, but that is not always as easy to do as it is to say when you are neither a US National or based in US.
The working capital requirement especially when you are dealing with payouts is certainly an obstacle.If you can generate your own traffic, this will certainly help and so will a merchant account with daily payouts if you can get one. An offshore account typically will have weekly payouts but you have to keep in mind the reserve as well.
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