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Originally Posted by OzMan
I think it comes down to a personal preference of how generous you feel. That is, what percentage of your profit from that affiliate are you willing to give back to him/her or are you assuming that overall total program join increases will pay for the bonus probably..
To keep it simple let's ignore the best and worst case scenarios..the affilate could hit you hard for six months and drop you the next day or he could keep that volume up for years.
So round numbers...each join is worth an average of $100 to you and the trip costs $10,000 (I am assuming coach class fare as you didn't mention details)
100 joins break even
1000 joins = 10% bonus
so ummm..somewhere in between those two 
Ok so I am sure my numbers are off and you really can't ignore the best and worst case as the whole point is to bump up total program joins for six months and hopefully much longer but... I tried 
btw could you phone my Mum in Perth and tell her sorry I haven't called lately, I errr can't dial from the US..sorry couldn't resist throwing that in re that other thread  |
More like 1000 than 100, REMEMBER, we are still paying them full ride on normal terms for the joins, so your math on break even is totally incorrect by definition, but the $10k per cost mark is about right...
And we have look at exactly what you say and assume the affiliate MAY drop us (bad business to plan for the best case) - but if they did keep sending we would likewise reward the following period ... cash even maybe ...
I would see economy fares on airline of their choice which they can upgrade if they like - business class doubles the costs .....
BEAR IN MIND THIS IS ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT THEY WOULD EARN SENDING JOINS TO THE PROGRAM - THEY STILL RECEIVE ALL OF THAT !!!
Doing it this way also means there is no limit on how many can qualify...
