Good stuff, since I started this out, some of my thoughts on this:
Why to open it up:
- Agree with Jayman and Timon, it's often how you find some of the more elusive 5% is by getting it out to masses
- Corallary: You never know who will be the next big hitter.
- Balance ... as Nick said, nice to have 10 guys sending 200 sales a day, but why toss out 2000 folks sending in 100? Take all you can get.
- Corallary: What if for whatever reason a few of your top folks bail? You still have (the other top folks) and all en-mass sales.
- More webmasters with links out there, more sites, galleries pages with links out there means: Greater SE traffic, greater TGP traffic, brand name awareness among surfers at large, more
Why to keep it invite:
- Still is it worth the headaches and expense?
- Less fraud. You can monitor fraud (or not worry as much about it) if you only have 10-25 webmasters you've established a relationship with (see KK's post) sending you traffic.
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