Own products or pure affiliate

Own products or pure affiliate

  • Products

    Votes: 24 40.0%

  • Just affiliate

    Votes: 36 60.0%
  • Total voters
    60
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olivark

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Wickedfire has a lot of knowledge about marketing but what I'm interested is that are you using that knowledge to only promote products as affiliate or do you have your own products you sell?

In the poll choices, if you choose products, it doesn't mean you can't do affiliate marketing while selling your own products :)
 


I do both. Theres advantages and disadvantages to each. I started in ecommerce (and still have an ecommerce site) before I did affiliate marketing. Although you can keep more of the pie if you sell your own product your also stuck with holding merchandise, shipping, customer service etc.

I think there is more opportunity to scale and more money to make in affiliate marketing. Also on a side note, in affiliate marketing, if an industry goes down or gets super regulated you can jump ship to a different industry. If you are the merchant your left holding the bag because its not as easy to change your focus overnight.
 
im considering creating my first product because I think I have something that will sell. its tough trying to figure out if I should focus on it in lieu of other things. I don't 7 or 8 figures in the bank yet, and i'm sure it would be easier to pause my affiliate efforts to focus on that if I did.
 
The topic isn't new to affiliate marketing. Look at old school copywriting/marketing legends. Most of them made (and still make) their money working for clients. A few cross over and market their own products. Look at Joe Sugarman and Blue Blocker sun glasses.

I think it's an end game. One way it seems to express itself in AM is in moving from affiliate to affiliate network owner. Although, the ones I'm referring to seem to be aiming for a bigger stake in the industry as opposed to a mere bigger piece in the money pie.
 
I've always owned my own product, I've never really given AM a good shot..

The thing that's appealing to me about owning my own product (it's digital so I don't have to worry about stocking/shipping), is it's something I have 100% complete control over. No strings attached. Since I own it, I take 100% of the cut.
 
Its alot more work to have your own product I have done both you can make almost as much being a straight affiliate without the overhead and headache
 
narsticle said:
not every product requires much overhead.
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indeed, my site is a digital product. i spend maybe about 5 minutes work on it per week (answering pre-sale questions). makes me currently $1300 on average p/month and i don't lift a finger, this includes marketing too since i currently just rely on 100% seo. can't beat that :P just need to scale it.
 
dreamache said:
indeed, my site is a digital product. i spend maybe about 5 minutes work on it per week (answering pre-sale questions). makes me currently $1300 on average p/month and i don't lift a finger, this includes marketing too since i currently just rely on 100% seo. can't beat that :P just need to scale it.
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is that for your music loop site?
i thought about doing something similar
 
I own a product at Clickbank that does pretty well... but I like being an affiliate a lot better.

Customer Support is a real pain in the ass to deal with. All kinds of douchebags who don't know how to open a pdf, so they start bitching and complaining for a refund.

Not to mention, Just under my order button It says....

"ONLY available exclusively in digital format... NOT available in Bookstores"

Yet, I still have people who email me saying they never received anything in the mail. I get so frustrated I usually just reply back... saying "No shit, you weren't suppose to get anything in the mail. Read the fucking sales page next time."

Stick with being an affiliate, customer support blows. Of course you could outsource it but I'd rather not have someone going through my account.
 
Danc1122 said:
I own a product at Clickbank that does pretty well... but I like being an affiliate a lot better.

Customer Support is a real pain in the ass to deal with. All kinds of douchebags who don't know how to open a pdf, so they start bitching and complaining for a refund.

Not to mention, Just under my order button It says....

"ONLY available exclusively in digital format... NOT available in Bookstores"

Yet, I still have people who email me saying they never received anything in the mail. I get so frustrated I usually just reply back... saying "No shit, you weren't suppose to get anything in the mail. Read the fucking sales page next time."

Stick with being an affiliate, customer support blows. Of course you could outsource it but I'd rather not have someone going through my account.
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If customer service is your biggest problem then you've got it made in my eyes.

Just let go of the fear and outsource your customer service already.
 
Do both fucker mates, you get the best of both worlds then

Don't do fuckin ebooks though cos they can scam apparently
 
lanapeas said:
Do both fucker mates, you get the best of both worlds then

Don't do fuckin ebooks though cos they can scam apparently
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It's not that they CAN scam, it's that they ARE scams. It's nothing but recycled information (information that is usually free) rehashed with a different title. You know it and I know it. The only reason you are here is because we are attacking your livelihood - scamming suckers into buying your half baked ebooks. You fear that people may just wake up. You fear that our presence in your cultist forum might clue people into the fact that they will never get what they want buying your shit. That they might wander over here and actually see how one can be succesful marketing on the internet, and that it has nothing to do with sligning shitty ebooks. Explain why the term wickedfire is censored on WarriorForum? You're nothing but a bunch of fucking cowards who are afraid that a little truth will cause all your followers to put down the Kool-Aid and no longer stuff your paypal accounts with tens of dollars. Clue up and GTFO!

And...what the fuck is a "fucker mate?"
 
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