The answer to this question is simple. Referring an ECA is more beneficial to an affiliate and the reason I'm so certain of this can be rendered down to one word - LEVERAGE.
Referring an ECA takes a finite amount of time. When the task is finished, the ECA simply makes you residual money and you never have to really lift a finger again in assistance. That leave you time to expend the effort to refer another ECA - and your leverage has just doubled. And that boild down to another word commonly heard around SFI and that one is - DUPLICATION.
So what happens when or if you bite the bullet and you do set up your own ECA? Well for one thing, you won't have as much time to spend on ECA referral and recruitment anymore. Much of your time will need to be allocated to the necessities of managing your ECA store and all your product listings. That shortage of of time might be slightly offset by your now having the hands on experience of setting up and having your own ECA and that could be of benefit when in the process of attempting to enroll other ECA merchants. I suppose we should now reduce this paragraph also down to a single work and that would be - EXAMPLE.
Now that we've really examined your question closer, perhaps we're leaning more in the direction of saying the truly optimum answer is both. Certainly the affiliate should set up an ECA storefront as a practical demonstration of their commitment to the ECA program and their ECA knowledge.
Then after your ECA is set up you allot only a certain percentage of your time to the day-to-day operations because the ECA isn't the biggest income earner for you in this instance because you devote even more time and effort into duplicating what you've already done. Then each ECA you sponsor and support into your SFI fold becomes a new income stream that is leveraging your earnings higher.
In conclusion, the affiliate should establish an ECA to set an example but place much more ongoing effort into DUPLICATING that EXAMPLE and LEVERAGING maximum EARNINGS.
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The answer to this question is simple. Referring an ECA is more beneficial to an affiliate and the reason I'm so certain of this can be rendered down to one word - LEVERAGE.
Referring an ECA takes a finite amount of time. When the task is finished, the ECA simply makes you residual money and you never have to really lift a finger again in assistance. That leave you time to expend the effort to refer another ECA - and your leverage has just doubled. And that boild down to another word
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