If it's any help -
1st - Open a site in a niche that you feel comfortable with (I am assuming you haven't got limitless cash)
2 - Learn the trade inside out - Make sure you know how to drive traffic to your site, how to turn the surfer into a member, and how to keep him -
3) Original content is important at starter level - Because your new member has most prbably been a member of several other sites and he has seen all the bought stuff. So - original content - Regular updates - loads of interaction with the members.
4) When you are generating a reasonable amount of cash - Re-invest as much as posible in more marketing - Pay submitters for tgp - Pay someone to create free sites etc -
5) Now you are getting somewhere - Look at opening new sites -
6) Only consider running a programme when you have something to offer partners to make it worth their while joining your programme, and when you are already creating sales enough for you to live on comfortably.
7) If you have shit loads of cash - Ignore the above - Create a members area full of upsales - Pay someone to bulid you 60 or so nice designs - Come here and say you will pay 100$ for every webmaster you refer to your programme - Find someone to cross sell to - Find another programme you can sell your cancels to.
Join a few programmes and spam the email addresses of your cancels - Then create another load of cheaper sites to offset the amount of chargebacks you are getting and start over -
Very soon you will be a "playa"
Just my
