Affiliate Marketing: Is this a Team or Individual Business?

A very important point for all those who keep interest in affiliate marketing. I will describe the difference based on the compensation plan of my Marketing company but you can easily relate it to your too. The concept is similar.
Strong Future International provides a compensation plan with many streams. Let me list them one by one and describe how an individual or team gets benefit out of it.
1. Direct Commissions:
This is the standard compensation plan for all marketing businesses. When you sign up one under you, he became your referral for life time. so when ever he makes a purchase you get direct commission for it.  This is a complete individual effort and requires no team.
2. TripleClicks Executive Pool:
A very powerful compensation provided by SFI. The concept is, 15% commission value of each product will be accounted for Tripleclicks Executive Pool (You can share profit share) and will be distributed among all active affiliates at the end of the month. The sharing will be as follows
For each VersaPoint (VP) you accumulate during the month, you will receive one share of the month’s pool. The more VP you score, the more you will earn from the TripleClicks Executive Pool! It’s that simple. Note that VP can be earned for doing a wide variety of actions (see VP Ledger for complete list of pointable actions).
To earn even more shares, become a Team Leader:
A. As a Bronze Team Leader, you’ll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 6 levels (including your CSAs).
B. As a Silver Team Leader, you’ll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 8 levels (including your CSAs).
C. As a Gold Team Leader, you’ll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 10 levels (including your CSAs).
D. As a Platinum Team Leader, you’ll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 12 levels (including your CSAs).
Matching VP Example: You are an STL. The EA2s in your first 8 levels account for a total of 57,500 VP this month, so YOU earn a matching 57,500 shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool.
So, In this case an individual effort gives you only your share where as a team will give you 100 times or more share of you. So in this point, Team is very necessary to make real money.
The rest of the all 5 compensation plan can be achieved by individual effort without support of a team.
Conclusion: You can earn money by making sales, recruiting ECAs by individual effort but the real huge money comes from coming from the team effort only as TripleClick Executive pool share. So Team building is a very vital part in affiliate marketing. In short, A team can enhance your growth more than 100 times of your individual effort.