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Old 08-11-2010, 01:33 PM  
WarChild
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Originally Posted by Jakez View Post
IMO, if you add up all the little affiliates sending a few sales a day or a week or a month, the majority of sales and profits are coming from them as opposed to a few whales. Especially considering many of the little affiliates will never reach payout.

So in the same context as fatfoo's post, an affiliate program needs 1000's of little affiliates and cannot survive on 1 big whale.
You might consider looking up Pareto's law. I'm willing to bet that for almost any given affiliate program, that somewhere around 20% of their affiliates make up 80% of their income.
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