Finally a real business thread, thought these were extinct here on GFY!
As a program owner I very much agree with your statement, we have noticed many of the same comments and trends. Consequently we have started doing several different things.
First of all we have our cookies set for at least 30 plus days to give the referring affiliate the best chance of registering a sale. Anyone with cookies set to the CCBill default of 3 days I wouldn't even touch.
Second we have started buying advertising on sites that also promote us using the standard affiliate model. We try to pick sites that we can reward with our advertising dollars because they have been loyal to us as affiliates. Now this is not 100% in effect but so far we've had great response and success.
Without quality, exclusive content member quit or worse chargeback so we put much of our efforts (and budget) into quality content with lots of updates. The members area for NextDoor-Models.com is updated 5 times a week with quality content.
We talk with our members via polls and comment sections to hear what they like and don't like and what they want to see more of. We make sure when members have problems with Username or Passwords they get fixed within 24hr or less.
Now most of this stuff is common sense but it consistently surprises me how many big programs and sites are still living in the old days and totally ignore this type of stuff, then they wonder why their sale are going down and blame the tubes or something.
Just my
