Originally Posted by David - PG

Who says overall (!) profit margin is better without affiliates? Doing all the marketing, traffic purchases, ROI analysis on each traffic source (pain in the ass) yourself will cost money and time. Time = money.

Not to mention site updating, network, servers, support, downtime management, security, leaked passwords etc. for 500x30x2.5=35k+ members adds a lot of fixed costs on your budget.