Recession Proof?
Recently we've been seeing a lot of chatter in the media about a pending recession. Some may argue that the recession has already hit, and that it's only going to get worse. Pending events like the US Presidential Election, coupled with the Bejing Olympics are top of mind as well.
I feel that performance based online marketing/affiliate marketing is recession proof.
Let's think about this; if you're currently spending money online for your company you certainly understand that there are numerous ways in which you can aggregate new users/viewers etc. You can purchase media on a CPM, CPC, or CPA. If you're currently working in a CPM scenario and you have a budget that can handle that, great. But what happens if that budget is directly effected by a recession. You'd be forced to modify your offering to performance based only. This would entail your only paying for a paid conversion, or a user (depends on how you'd prefer to define an aquisition).
In this manner of advertising you're still spending ad dollars, but only if you're making money yourself. If you've done your homework, understand your allowable aquisition rate, and can back into the appropriate metrix....then you're recession proof!
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