It is going to depend on your set of skills as to whether buying PSAs or personally sponsoring is best. If you can recruit then you should because you can control the quality of the affiliates you receive much better when you are doing the advertising yourself. But if you can not recruit, then buy them as you can afford them. It is not going to serve your well to do absolutely no sponsoring. The reason is that your sales will be made by you alone. You will have no active network so that you can leverage the efforts of many. Although, you may be an excellent salesperson; you can only sale so much in a certain period.
Yet, if you duplicate yourself; then, you can do multiple times the number of sales and earn 45% of the commission volume generated. This may not seem like much but when you have a few hundred hard working affiliates, you can easily make $500 dollars every month with about 4 hours of work each day.
Moreover, you can always learn how to recruit. In the meantime, I highly suggest participating in some co-op at a level that you can afford. While you will not get many active affiliates quickly with consistency over time, you will get active affiliates. Free advertising is heavily used so the competition is fierce. You have to learn how to become an effective copywriter over time. So while you learn, I'd set a small budget aside to invest in growing my network.
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It is going to depend on your set of skills as to whether buying PSAs or personally sponsoring is best. If you can recruit then you should because you can control the quality of the affiliates you receive much better when you are doing the advertising yourself. But if you can not recruit, then buy them as you can afford them. It is not going to serve your well to do absolutely no sponsoring. The reason is that your sales will be made by you alone. You will have no active network so that you ...more
