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Originally Posted by Tanker
its true I have talked to many owners that said they pay out 100K a month in affiliate checks they could take that same 100K and just pay employees to do it and stop taking affiliates and end up with more
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Dear gawd someone else agreed with me.
Typically the stance I took is an impossible debate. Affiliates of course always argue that they are needed because without them they do not get their traffic and its x amount of hits they normally would not get and so forth. Why turn down traffic, why have 10 people instead of 10,000 affiliates, and the list goes on and on.
Then rarely will program owners ever chime in of course.
Of course the other issues never get spoken about aside from affiliate payouts, such like:
Fraud.
Time spent on affiliates.
Advertising costs to get affiliates.
Hidden affiliate costs.
Potential secondary producer rulings with 2257.
Potential liabilities company is exposed to with affiliates.
Etc.