alot of affiliates become your friends. I have been online for 7 year adult. before hosting and design online for 4. 11 online total. I have friends also known as 'affiliates/webmasters/owners/partners' we enjoy what we do and make a enough money to do it...
I have several stories about your topic I would like to share.
I have had affiliates that would signup and start sending 800,000 unique visits a day from 1 guy ;-) with-out warning.
this will cause your sales / traffic / bandwidth / chargebacks.refunds / customer support and other related issue?s that will need more attention, some deals will work while you try and make others stop ; I have had an affiliate that converted 1/60,000 on a free trial. while my avg was 1/230 overall (more then 750 joins a day) - I was loosing money with this affiliate.
the more you know about the traffic affiliates have the better you can create your product to target and convert it ;-)
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The bottom line is yes you are forgetting something, Affiliate's become your friends and your friends become your affiliates, after you have been online and have some history with them. you only need affiliates if you have a paysite, vod site or are a studio then it would make you more money...
try and stay ontop of your affiliates and run reports often on your bandwidth /sales conversions... see who is going what and give assistance when needed ; you will know your product better then anyone ;-)
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