Hey
Yeah, I get questions about this mysterious $1 none recurring trial every now and then, and it's understandable because it's not seen very often.
I have been experimenting with this for quite some years now and the results has been quite interesting.
If there's something a lot of customers/surfers doesn't like to read it's the word "recurring", that I found out like 4-5 years ago or so when we tried replacing our recurring trial with a none recurring one.. over night our trial sales increase by - are you ready? - 300%
So, our trial members gets access to a limited version of the full members area.. and if they want to view the full videos/galleries they need to upgrade their membership to full month recurring - for some reason it's much easier to get them to go recurring them they're already inside and seen a peak of the thousands of videos which they will get access to after they upgrade.
So, with 300% more trials sold, the upgrade ratio can be quite low to match up with the recurring trials.. but for a good portion of my sites it's actually pretty decent.
Here's the recent stats for my best sites (how long a period this is for, is classified information
) :
These are 100% raw numbers, not uniques :
scandalshows 7861 5419 191 13 14 6 43% 27 1:291
publicsexshows 9009 6225 251 5 18 8 44% 23 1:392
stripclubcheaters 10829 7180 324 11 11 4 36% 22 1:492
untamedshows 11478 7315 189 16 6 3 50% 22 1:522
The numbers explained : raw tour hits, join page views, join page clicks, full sales, trials, upgrades, upgrade percentage, total sales, and raw ratio.
When a member upgrades it will pop up as a new recurring sale in your CCBILL affiliate stats.
These are ofcourse my best sites, but even an upgrade ratio of 30% is pretty good with none recurring trials if you ask me.. and it also minimized the cb ratio because here's it's actually the member himself taking the decision instead of a recurring trial he forgot to cancel ;)