{"id":495,"date":"2007-01-04T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2019-02-13T07:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:29:56","slug":"affiliate-marketing-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/affiliate-marketing-sham\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Marketing Sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have you read the &#8220;<\/strong><strong>The Great Affiliate Marketing Sham<\/strong>&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/the-affiliate-sham-saga-continued\/\">find out why this link was removed<\/a>] yet?<\/p>\n<p>It's a little 56-page report by a fellow known only as &#8220;X&#8221;. Having managed affiliate programs for others as well as his own, and worked an affiliate, he was tired of affiliates being &#8220;sc___ed&#8221;. (Note: Don't read this report if you're offended by strong language.)<\/p>\n<p>While outlining his evolution as an affiliate marketer, from &#8220;Age of Darkness&#8221; to &#8220;I Began to Build an Affiliate Business&#8221;, &#8220;X&#8221; talks about lousy tracking, poor commissions, terrible conversion and the fact that most merchants can't sell because &#8220;they and their consultants or &#8220;webmasters&#8221; have no clue what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing, etc, etc, etc..&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;X' correctly reports &#8220;While most affiliates are worried about protecting their commissions from theft by other affiliates or people using their own link to buy, the reality is this only accounts for about 8% of commission loss in the Internet Marketing niche. In other niches, commission theft is negligible in contrast. The greater concern should be on the 25%&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His mission now is to teach you how to, &#8220;<em>Use Affiliate Marketing to Make Money, Build Your Business, Gain Valuable Insight Into the Business of Your Competitors &#8211; and Seduce Away Their Customers<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; an obvious marketing statement for his upcoming Black Book DVD's, which I can't recommend as I haven't seen them.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report is a quick (lots that can be skimmed through) yet worthwhile read and the point that he makes about how SMART Internet marketers use affiliate marketing channels is absolutely bang-on. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read The Great Affiliate Marketing Sham<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/the-affiliate-sham-saga-continued\/\">find out why this link was removed<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you read the &#8220;The Great Affiliate Marketing Sham&#8221; [find out why this link was removed] yet? 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