Originally Posted by JA$ON

Depends what kind of affiliate you are an how much you have...

If you do say, 100 sales a day as a Media buyer...you are WAY better off staying an affiliate. You get paid a good % of the revenue from the sale up front and are likely working on thin margins. The amount of Cash it takes to lay out the media buying cost for those 100 joins a day is a shitload. You may have to wait 6 - 9 months if it is your own site before you are in the Black. Example....

100 joins a day. Member Value of the join for Life (depends on niche etc, but lets estimate) $100. To be competitive, you may have to spend $80 to acquire that join.

SO...

$80 X 100 daily joins = $8,000 X 30 days = $240,000 per month

You may need to lay out 1.2mm before you are in the black. Now, can you start smaller, sure, but Im talking about a guy who does 100 a day now as an affiliate and makes that 20% profit every day switching to doing it on his own. Now, he only needs to lay out maybe 2 weeks - 1 month of cash to float the media cost before his payouts come in.

It really depends on your situation, but I know a lot of guys that do 300+ joins a day (media buyers) and have NO desire to do it on their own. No huge capital, no employees and they have the ability to bounce between TONS of different offers....whatever is working best in a spot, they run it. If its your OWN, you are stuck using ONLY your sites.