It's very interresting, however, because of the competition, we are already over paying our affiliates, when you have your own sales manager, you right about paying him for is learning time, but when after a few time your sales grow, your profits are more profitable for the company than having only affiliates.
for example, at our company, we offer up to 30%, and if one of our affiliate came from another affiliate, or affiliate network we pay another 5%, we also pay arround 40% for the product and another 10% for the billing processor.
it means that by working only with affiliates, we our payout is up to 85%!!!! per sale. also means that we get only 15% of the sale, and for that, we need to have a service team, sale team, logistic team, web-dev team.
because we offer lifetime commissions, we cannot expect to make more profit on each affiliate sales.
this is true that we offer the highest commissions in this market, but after few years of research, it was the only way to get more affiliates.
bottom line, affiliates are great for the run-over of the company, BUT sales managers are great for the bigger profits, every internet commerce should consider using both.
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