The End of Affiliate Marketing As We Know It?
There currently is a discussion going on being initiated by affiliate marketers believing that affiliate marketing will soon change, has to change.
Their arguments are strong and impressive and caused a noticeable uproar on several internet forums & blogs.
They basically say that the internet affiliate marketing promoting digital, downloadable products, such as guidelines, basically is a bubble which will soon burst.
Most of the products you see on Clickbank promising customers to make money are simply telling their readers to launch Google campaigns which is outright scam, we, (advanced) affiliate marketers would say.
Indeed, the quality is really low: Hundreds of eBooks around the topic "Make Money Online" exist, all written by authors claiming to be experts.
We of course know that only a few authors really are interested in helping people, the rest wants to see these gray and blue graphs in their Clickbank accounts growing.
After this line up of facts and arguments, the 'Doomsayers' of internet affiliate marketing predict a movement forward to promoting physical products like electronics, clothing etc.
I appreciate this discussion and especially the recommendation to move on to physical products since it means less competitors for me.
The internet grows day by day.
While we read sales pitches between the lines and soon know what the product really is about, a newbie is more than excited and will probably buy it.
Even our "buy instincts" are often appealed when we see a convincing sales pitch.
The critics of internet affiliate marketing promoting make money guidelines use to forget that the willingness from people in general to make quick money is as old as money itself.
Let me explain that by an example: HYIPs are very risky investment programs doing high leverage Forex trading and other risky things like that.
Some are outright scams as well.
The usual HYIP investor rarely makes profit and often loses his assets.
But as soon as the next paycheck is cashed, he comes across the next website promising in big coloured letters "20% per week" and he's invested again.
Same applys to ebooks appealing the same feature of humans.
Of course not everyone is affected by that.
But a majority is.
And even people who have been 'scammed' by such ebooks promising the earth & delivering nothing still continue buying ebooks, a 'natural law' already described by the authors behind 'The Rich Jerk' ebook.
The quality of such guidelines has always been very low, unlike their sales pitches of course.
2 years ago, when more Clickbank products than ever before had been sold, today's critics probably would have said that the online affiliate marketing promoting ebooks is the best, most healthy and promising business on this planet, although the quality back then was as low as it is today.
Hence there is no issue.
Internet affiliate marketing selling 'illusions' basically promising to make a fortune with less effort is as healthy as it always is and was, due to the nature of humans & the fact that the internet is growing day by day.
Their arguments are strong and impressive and caused a noticeable uproar on several internet forums & blogs.
They basically say that the internet affiliate marketing promoting digital, downloadable products, such as guidelines, basically is a bubble which will soon burst.
Most of the products you see on Clickbank promising customers to make money are simply telling their readers to launch Google campaigns which is outright scam, we, (advanced) affiliate marketers would say.
Indeed, the quality is really low: Hundreds of eBooks around the topic "Make Money Online" exist, all written by authors claiming to be experts.
We of course know that only a few authors really are interested in helping people, the rest wants to see these gray and blue graphs in their Clickbank accounts growing.
After this line up of facts and arguments, the 'Doomsayers' of internet affiliate marketing predict a movement forward to promoting physical products like electronics, clothing etc.
I appreciate this discussion and especially the recommendation to move on to physical products since it means less competitors for me.
The internet grows day by day.
While we read sales pitches between the lines and soon know what the product really is about, a newbie is more than excited and will probably buy it.
Even our "buy instincts" are often appealed when we see a convincing sales pitch.
The critics of internet affiliate marketing promoting make money guidelines use to forget that the willingness from people in general to make quick money is as old as money itself.
Let me explain that by an example: HYIPs are very risky investment programs doing high leverage Forex trading and other risky things like that.
Some are outright scams as well.
The usual HYIP investor rarely makes profit and often loses his assets.
But as soon as the next paycheck is cashed, he comes across the next website promising in big coloured letters "20% per week" and he's invested again.
Same applys to ebooks appealing the same feature of humans.
Of course not everyone is affected by that.
But a majority is.
And even people who have been 'scammed' by such ebooks promising the earth & delivering nothing still continue buying ebooks, a 'natural law' already described by the authors behind 'The Rich Jerk' ebook.
The quality of such guidelines has always been very low, unlike their sales pitches of course.
2 years ago, when more Clickbank products than ever before had been sold, today's critics probably would have said that the online affiliate marketing promoting ebooks is the best, most healthy and promising business on this planet, although the quality back then was as low as it is today.
Hence there is no issue.
Internet affiliate marketing selling 'illusions' basically promising to make a fortune with less effort is as healthy as it always is and was, due to the nature of humans & the fact that the internet is growing day by day.
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