partnership with established company

[Toby]

Teela, since you don't know me from Adam let me preface my advice by letting you know where I'm coming from. I promote mostly solo girl sites, primarily amateurs like yourself, the majority of them using CCBill. CCBill programs are two-thirds of my income.

If you're going to be using CCBill to administer your affiliate program then I highly recommend holding back on launching that part of your site until you are able to pay the fee and accept Visa via CCBill. You only get one shot at a first impression, and if you launch a CCBill affiliate program without being able to accept Visa, most experienced webmasters will not join and most likely won't check your program again.

My advice is to wait until you can accept Visa thru CCBill then launch your affiliate program. That will also give you time to build up content in your member area, which will help your retention, and to build promo materials so when you do launch your affiliate program you have more than just a handful of hosted galleries and zipped image sets.

One other piece of advice. As a solo teen site you are in a highly saturated, extremely competitive market. Having something that makes you or your site stand out just a bit from the crowd would be a big boost to your site.