If this is really the case, I'd strongly suggest you take one of two routes. Spend some time and do some research into starting and maintaining an affiliate program. Or, hire someone to take care of this for you and train you. Otherwise, you are seriously going to lose a lot of money.
Or, as they prefer to say here: you'll get ass raped so hard, you won't be able to sit or shit for a month.
Yes, I agree. I want to do this right and I think the best way would be to use both routes. I would certainly research it myself (although I do not know a good resource to use) and would hire someone to produce the website and landing pages etc. I just want to make sure I'm doing it right the first time to try to avoid that ass raping.
I capitalized.