[etothepii]

I'm always curious about affiliate programs. I can absolutely believe that someone who can generate $100k of sales for you may do so for 40% but I find it hard to believe that anyone will bring their one or two friends with the same problem as because they get $4 (though I'm happy to be proven wrong on this with data).

Finally, "just get 2000 users" seems like a bit of a hand wavy exercise. Getting even 5 paying customers is in my opinion, no small feat.

[internetter]

Affiliate programs are frequently described as “bring a friend” but this is not how they operate in practice. Entire industries have been built upon maximizing SEO on blogspam, and then driving the traffic through your affiliate links. Think “these are the top 5 best insurance companies” articles.