Ever Feel Guilty?

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It's often not the product, but how it's marketed. For example Green Tea - it tastes good and has some health benefits, but as for weight loss... it's debatable to say the least.

My sister runs a company that produces fair trade green tea and I was talking to her about looking at getting affiliates to sell it, but after seeing the payouts the CPA networks make when it's sold for weight loss we realised it probably wouldn't be very attractive to affiliates. However, if anyone wants to sell green tea, (& coffee, chocolate, etc) directly for a percentage, pm me.
 


You could always quit IM and get a day job. But do you REALLY think that would help? Who are you gonna work for, Wal-mart, Target, Amazon.com, 7-11? You think these companies don't sell diet pills, caffiene pills , cigarettes, hand-guns, God-awful "energy drinks" and saturated fat-laden snack food that will kill you 10 years prematurely?

Or you could work in the financal industry, talking people into mortgages they can't afford or irresponsible financial products (reverse mortgage anyone?). "Here ya go folks, have some MORE debt!"

The point (if I have one ;)) is this: All marketers do is give people more choices, more options: "Hey! Wanna buy a widget?" They are free to say "yeah sure, I love me some widgets" or "Piss off--not interested."

That's free will for you...
 
Stupid people will always be buying stupid shit.
So they might as well be buying through my links.
How is getting my piece of the inevitable immoral?

It's not
 
I'll be honest, I only started making good money in the affiliate business when I realized that I didn't need more "friends" - I just needed customers who buy stuff.

Until then I'd been blogging up my butt providing great content, getting tons of loyal readers, yada yada. Then when I put up a simple PayPal button for donations these same loyal readers were all over my shit because I dared to "charge money." WTF?

So I stopped wasting time blogging for losers. Started building crap affiliate sites.

Over time I started building better ones.

Now I try to build stuff that doesn't feed addictions in the consumer or cause them to lose their soul or whatever - but anything else goes.

Everything I do online now with a site is geared toward getting the sale. Period.

Once I shifted my focus, I began to earn five figures from this. Still have a long way to go but at least it's better than earning a big fat zero from a bunch of dumn $^*#s who can't even be bothered to make a PayPal donation for all the free info you 've been giving them over the years.

Dan
 
dangregory said:
Everything I do online now with a site is geared toward getting the sale. Period.

Once I shifted my focus, I began to earn five figures from this. Still have a long way to go but at least it's better than earning a big fat zero from a bunch of dumn $^*#s who can't even be bothered to make a PayPal donation for all the free info you 've been giving them over the years.

Dan
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Amen Brother Amen

This is my problem. I write stuff, work my butt off, build readership and 1000 plus feedburner accounts, and then the bottom drops out of the ad market. Look for donations and other ways to earn but it never measures up for the time.

That is why Next week I am starting my affiliate sales program in ernest. Going broke doing things the noble way.
 
the feeling of guilt should be lessened when you realize you're having $10-15 skimmed off every acai berry lead by your network. ;)
 
Now that I think of it, I should get off my high horse.

Who cares if some lonely, loser shumuck takes enlargement pills and grows a third dick. Fuck him, I need money for beer and stripper.
 
Don't Ask, Don't Tell

I don't know if my products work and I don't want to know. It's surprisingly completely irrelevant to my job.
 
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