joconnor424

Hey guys,

I just recently was accepted into a affiliate marketing group and the AM asked me to start with e-mail submit offers. Looking them over they're a bunch of "Get a (company name) $500 gift card FREE!" offers. Of course, in the fine print below it tells you have a bunch of hoops to go through.

I'm new to Affiliate marketing so I wondered if anyone started this way or has/is doing email offers similar to this? Did you ever feel like you were scamming people? Is Affiliate marketing mostly scam work?

I feel like it's shady, and something I wouldn't want to sign up for, but I understand the value as an affiliate marketer to go through these exercises to learn how to market. Any thoughts would be great. Thanks!

jonas33h

joconnor424

Hahahaha. Sadly, I am serious. Be gentle, please!

bit

You are right it is basically deceptive, they aren't getting $500 in whatever... at least its EXTREMELY unlikely.

I wouldn't call this offer tooo morally ambiguous other than having the user deal with endless spam forever (I'm so pissed whatever shithead company leaked my main email just endless spam for 2 years now) and lose $xx in some trial

AllTheGold

If you're interested in promoting more mainstream and well known companies for moral purposes, I would look into CPS affiliate models. These systems pay you based on sales, rather than actions (CPA).

CPS carries a very different set of strategies and traffic driving methods. Commission Junction and Clickbank are examples of major CPS networks.

In regard to "is affiliate marketing scam work?", the answer is sometimes. Driving new users to niche dating sites isn't a scam. Promoting e-mail submits where the user losing nothing besides his inbox address isn't much of a scam. Rebills can get pretty shady though.

kakaboo

I used to think that way too, but you always have an option to not promote it if you feel that you will not be able to sleep well at night after promoting it.

There are tons of other offers out there, you will definitely be able to find one that suit your cup of tea (although be prepared to receive a lower commission/payout)

jonas33h

if they read the fine print they are informed if they don't well how is it a scam

joconnor424

Thanks everyone! Appreciate the feedback!

Izaya

If someone is dumb enough to fall for it's to bad. I used to think like this to. I had a weight loss site which promoted legit products, guess what the site made no money. I switched to shitty CPA rebill products and bam! Money. True story.

nataliemor

It is not a scam. The e-mail subject should be xxxx (company name) affiliate program, and be honest.