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Old Apr 17, 2013, 3:17 pm
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Originally Posted by kokonutz
Ok. But when you said mid-six figures I assumed you meant $500,000...? At $50 a pop, that'd be 10,000 approved cards.
More like $100k a pop on average so 5,000 approved cards. I think that is very viable


Originally Posted by kokonutz
Ah. That sort of makes sense. The problem, of course, is that the CC companies want strict confidentiality about affiliate payout amounts as well as quotas....so I guess we will only get solid answers from disgruntled former bloggers. @:-)
There are other ways and means. Plenty of loose lips on the circuit. You won't get the exact number blogger xyz gets for card abc but you can certainly get good ballparks. And of course there is variation across the board. But there are real reasons you see certain cards get pimped more than others.
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