Yes. To my mind, "helping your affiliates too much" means spending enough money on their behalf to make them not have to follow through with promoting or recruiting on their own. For example, if you include these PSAs on every co-op without paying for their share, sending them money to help pay for their standing orders, and sending welcome messages to the PSAs they get through the co-op you run, that's too much. They're not likely to do all that themselves, which means they'll never duplicate your behavior.
Now, chances are, you're not going to take things *that* far, and it certainly doesn't hurt to help ease an affiliate into the process--I would reward, for example, a new PSA who puts out his or her first ad and shows you where it is. That would be a good way to earn a free co-op share, in my opinion. You only help those who show initiative, though. Show them their time is worth something.
Yes. To my mind, "helping your affiliates too much" means spending enough money on their behalf to make them not have to follow through with promoting or recruiting on their own. For example, if you include these PSAs on every co-op without paying for their share, sending them money to help pay for their standing orders, and sending welcome messages to the PSAs they get through the co-op you run, that's too much. They're not likely to do all that themselves, which means they'll never ...more
