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It's just occurred to me... Posterous could make themselves THE publishing platform by simply sharing the revenue again. All they need do is to act like anothe
by buro9 17y ago
It's just occurred to me... Posterous could make themselves THE publishing platform by simply sharing the revenue again.
All they need do is to act like another viglink or skimlinks and to record the clicks made per publisher using their platform. Then offer the publisher 50% of the revenue.
This is then an incentive to use Posterous beyond all of the ease of use. Anything you posted that included a potentially monetisable link would earn you revenue.
Now, this isn't as lucrative as just doing it yourself. But to all of the creative people making cool content who are lost when it comes to affiliate schemes this would be a killer feature.
- jorgeortiz85 17y agoThis would turn 90% of Posterous content into affiliate spam.
- buro9 17y agoI don't think so. Those who do spam wouldn't be up for giving viglink 25% and then settling for only half of the remaining 75%. Spammers aren't entirely stupid, they'd go register direct and do what they usually do (set up little spam bait sites) as that would be way more profitable. This would help small publishers more than it would assist spammers.
- richardburton 17y agoI've met the CTO from Skimlinks and he ran me through just how incredibly hard it is to build and, more importantly, maintain an affiliate marketing aggregation program. If Posterous decided to build their own they would certainly sacrifice product-development.