From The Seedy Underworld of Drugs and Prostitution To Entrepreneurial Success: David Sharpe’s Journey with Empower Network (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: All right and with this model, you have generated about a $100 million in affiliate commissions so far. Of which, about 70% of that has been paid-out to your partners? David Sharpe: Technically, 100%. Last year, we did around $63 million in product sales. All of that, less processing fees, are given out

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From The Seedy Underworld of Drugs and Prostitution To Entrepreneurial Success: David Sharpe’s Journey with Empower Network (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If you’re claiming that part of your secret stuff in building this company is this 30,000 affiliate network, then I need to understand how you got to 30,000 affiliate partners in two years. I’m looking for round numbers. Let’s say you pay 90% commission to one layer of affiliate and they go and

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