What to do with 50 trainees?

Since you said yourself that you don't know what you are doing with link building why do you think you should be taking on trainees?

What exactly are you training them at? I think they should do that. Articles/linking done by untrained people... sounds like a headache. I would stick to the training programme and get some output at the end of that.

Are they being paid?

Just so you know, Warriors have a problem. We just hate to answer questions without all the facts.

Like, how did you get 50 trainees that you can pay to work for you and six call center employees.

If I had that team I do not think I would do what you are doing. I probably would pull the resources into four products with one hell of a product launch.
They can make the products, squeeze page, they can do the main product, sales page, oto 1, oto1 downsell, oto 2, they can do the affiliate launch page, work the affiliate rooms. I said four because you want one on the back burner so when the launch is over you can mail them the new offer and rake all profits to account for affiliate costs.

More information: The 50 trainees are so called "internship trainees". They get paid a maximum fee of +/- USD 120 / month. Since there aren't enough companies offering internships for marketing(overall) most of them signed up with one of my joint ventures. We have done similar deals in the past and it was exciting for both trainees and the company, and at the end all benefit from the deal.

@Hustlin. That sounds great. It might be of interest to put a few products in the spotlights and let them do all the marketing related activities.

do you really want this kind of headache, manage 50 people at once Do you have step-by-step plan/project? If you targeted for writing articles maybe you can open PLR store with 10 niches. In this case who is going to screen those articles for you? I think you should settle first how you going to manage 50 people. Which country they from? If Philippines you need really put a big effort to teach and manage them. What they can do? Maybe you can open broker business online/offline.

I have managed up to 100 people in offline businesses and I can tell you that it can be a huge headache. I had infrastructure in place, etc but I was the manager.
Why on earth would you want 50 trainees when you don't know what to do with them? Is it you paying them or someone else?
If it's you, then it's crazy.
If it's someone else, then maybe it is ok but I would focus on a few projects, certainly not one each as training would take you something like 200 hours a week (which is impossible.)

Hmmm i'm used at managing 50+ people, i have no issues with that whatsoever. However its my current mission to find out what to do with them.

I'm not paying them myself. The only reason i get them offered is because i'm responsible for the new projects.

The trainees are all Dutch, capable of also reading / writing English and German and on average about 20 years of age.

Really want to make a difference with them, the last few years we also made use of the trainees. That however was offline business.

Just got some nice (non saturated) dropshipping opportunities offered. That might be nice, especially since the search volume and competition is low/med. Going to work out some plans later today.

So, you're going to teach these trainees Internet Marketing yet you don't know how to link build? It sounds like a case of the blind leading the blind.

As a teacher, I would say you are approaching this the wrong way. You shouldn't be asking "what can YOU get out of the trainees" - it makes it sound as if your aim is to use them for your own profit and get them to do menial tasks.

What you should be asking is "what should I be teaching the trainees" to enable to them to be come useful employees/internet marketers.

They are coming to you to learn. You owe it to yourself and to them to make that your PRIMARY focus. The rest will follow.

For example, give each of them a project to do for your business. Get them to set up a website and research how to get that site earning $xxx in yy days. They will learn how to find a domain name, how to research and find a niche, how to set up a site, how to source or write content, how to do seo, etc, etc.

Yes, along the way they will build sites for you which will earn you money, but that won't be your stated primary focus.

Encourage them to learn and help themselves and they will be motivated and ultimately make more money for you. If you make them feel that they just being used as cheap labour for you they will become demotivated, resentful and learn nothing.

You have a resource of 50 fresh brains, who could bring new ideas, thinking and ways of working to the table, if you allow them and encourage them.

You could use some of them to write content and the rest for other tasks. Content is always needed so choose the best writers. I am sure each will have different skills so find that out first and take it from there.