A good head for math?
 

I see so many sponsors offering $ABC per signup with XYZ% recurring affiliate schemes. Is there a ‘rule of thumb’ financial model that establishes how soon the $ABC bounty is recouped/how many recurring transactions and customers it takes to recoup?

There's a lot of factors that you have to throw in there for the PPS model - cross sales, upsells, consoles & retention being the main onces.

I think that once a program is open for a couple months - let's say 6 - they then look at what their profit margin is compared to their total signups. They then decide if they can pay out a flat fee per signup & what that amount will be.

And posted on at least 5 boards all at once…