There are alot of ways to cut back on expenses. Biting the hand that feeds you is not one of them.
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I don’t know about you, but I am not making the same amount as I have been in the past. Sure, a few are comparable, a few are even better, but all in all I have gone backwards since the bill. So it’s all relative, we are running a business too and have to make the same kind of cutbacks, but I don’t send an email to some of the sites I advertise on asking them to cut my rate so I can remain profitable. It’s like me saying to my sub affiliates, I am not making enough cheese as I want to, so I am going to take another 1% out of your pocket and put it in mine. I also don’t think the extra money they are making from affiliates with bundling is the difference between them making a profit or not. I think it is more of them attempting to keep the big dollars rolling in anyway they can, and if that means if it has to come out of affiliates pockets, so be it.
It doesn’t matter what business you are in, when things are not going so hot you immediately ask yourself why, and how can I change it. So now looking at it from a casino owners perspective, the first thing that comes to mind when I ask myself, “How do we bring more dollars in the door?” is we need to grow, we need more players, we need more affiliates, we need more traffic and the list goes on. Instead of cutting affiliates pay, I would probably be raising commissions to get prime exposure which will lead to more players, more commissions, more $$$$$, everyones happy. Sure cutbacks will come to mind, but not with affiliates. We are not an expense you can just cut back, shit we bring the money in. It’s not smart, especially during these times to rock the boat with affiliates. But again I don’t know their end of the business, so I concede that I don’t fully understand their side of things.
Most affiliates I have seen here are extremely compassionate and understanding, and as BB1 pointed out, I think if a program genuinely put some ideas on the table to help them succeed, we would be open to it. But thats a silly thought, its not like we are partners or anything and our goals are one and the same, to make money.