However, the Pareto principle suggests that 80% of your results will come from only 20% of people, so it makes sense to focus on attracting more of the high results affiliates and not just focus on trying to get every low earning affiliate to do more.
Sounds like it would make a whole lot of sense to focus on attracting the desirable affiliates to your program more than attempting to educate and train the ones that probably will not be able to contribute to your bottom line. So the big questions is, how do you find the 20% that get you 80% of your results?