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Originally Posted by MetaMan
the days of the affiliate are almost up.
there will still be "affiliates" but it is going to narrow down to networks dealing with each other in private networks.
the risk of paying some TOP affiliates $2k a day is not worth the risk of getting your merchant shut down. affiliates are a risk that is no longer needed.
places are going in house and it is for a reason.
if you cannot develop your own traffic you should not be running a network in the first place.
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The risk of having affiliates is almost nothing... programs that produce inhouse sales have no more or less chargebacks/refunds than programs that produce sales through affiliates.
Being able to produce your own sales is easy... being able to produce the sales Affiliates can, isn't easy - and very few programs throughout History have been able to do it and pay for staff, manage the hosting, updates correctly, find/buy and build domains, then shooting, manage both traffic and paysites, etc.
I'm all up for starting your own traffic network. Just don't expect it to pass affiliate sales in the first year or two or longer, if ever.
Topbucks is an Affiliate based program that is growing. If they're able to do it, what's wrong with everyone else?