I'm considering setting up an affiliate program for my online store (
www.dreamingrobots.com). Basically this program would let others advertise my products, and I would pay that person a percentage of each sale generated by them.
I don't want people to spam these links everywhere or annoy other groups and if that becomes a problem I would remove affiliates who do that, but if it's too common then I might just cancel the whole program. I do think there are good cases for this. Such as someone having a fiber related blog, newsletter, spinning class, or some other activity where they can send their customers to my site. These cases are win-win-win. They help out their audience by showing them something they are interested in, they help themselves by making a percentage of the sale, and I win by getting a new sale.
Setting this up will be quite a bit of work so I'd like to see that there is a decent amount of interest before I put in that work.