Hey Ralf

Here's my advice...

Much like Curtis, if your frontend is low ticket you need to give affiliates a reason to promote.

You should not be looking at your front end as the money maker, simply the lead generator.

I take on board your thoughts and I used to have the same viewpoint, however until I stopped looking at the frontend as an income source then I struggled.

Here's the view from an affiliate prospective,

I could promote your product for 50% of your $10 and get $5

Or I could go promote X's product for 75% of their $77 product and get $57

Both will take the same ammount of 'selling' so why would I choose yours?

Ok so now you bring the backend into it... This is where you should be aiming to make your money, but not just here, you obviously have your list now of buyers.

These people will make you and only you even more money as you build your relationship with them and promote further products in the future.

That said my advice give as much as possible to your affiliates, at the end of the day wouldnt you rather take a smaller slice of a constant stream of on-going traffic from affiliates because you reward them highly for their efforts

or

A larger slice of a few one-off hits of traffic because you're not giving enough reason for people to promote you.

The setups as you have mentioned I would give 100% commissions on the frontend (Preferably immediate payout)

Then at 50% of your recurring backend

Try and build in different levels of membership at varied prices that increase to say $97 PM.

The more affiliate attention you can get the more money everyone makes, then you have your biggest asset - Your list

Hope that helps

Dean