Online Affiliate Scams Revealed
When selling affiliate products in your online store, avoid
these common online affiliate scams. I lost a ton of money
promoting useless non-paying affiliate programs until I found
these guys. It's time to learn the truth about affiliate
products and sales from someone who KNOWS the business!
If you want to sell products as an affiliate, where do you look?
There are all kinds of affiliate programs to join on several
major affiliate networks. There's likely to be lots of decent
sales generating affiliate companies right?
Not true, according to Adam Fisher, the Affiliate Product
Sourcing Editor for Net Worth Radio:
When you see all these "Incredible" affiliate companies and
programs and products of affiliate networks on the internet,
promising phenomenal sales and offering commissions ranging
anywhere from 5% to 50% or more, what you're seeing is 99% junk.
There are thousands of scammers, snake oil salesmen and con
artists on the Internet who are just lying around waiting to
AMBUSH you when you begin looking for REAL affiliate programs to
do business with. Believe it or not, there is a whole niche
industry built up on the Net around this kind of scamming! The
folks who run these scams have all the moral fiber of a box of
hair, and the only reason they even recognize the word
'Scruples' is from the TV ad for the party game.
You may have even fallen prey to one of these con artists,
selling you on their "exclusive" affiliate programs as if they
are the greatest money-makers since the internet bubble burst.
Me too. I've joined so many programs that I can't even recollect
how many. I don't know why, but I tend to find the "good" in
people, and I was "sold" by these marketing schemes time and
time again, even after being scammed by the latest one. Finally,
after so much disappointment and frustration, I had HAD ENOUGH.
I decided to get to the bottom of this appeal we all have with
online affiliate companies, and find out if there really were
any PROFITABLE ones for selling "hot" affiliate goods at premium
prices.
I literally contacted the administrator of every affiliate
website I could find. Posing as an investor, I managed to
persuade the owners that I was seriously interested in
purchasing their entire website and business. That way, once the
cartoonish bags of money flashed in their heads, they would
grant me free access to their member's areas to examine what I
would be "selling". Well, I was appalled with 99% of what I
found. Many of the owners actually bragged about how many people
joined their useless non-paying affiliate programs. I repeatedly
found:
*outdated links
*non-working links
*links leading to other sites that wanted you to sell crap
*no help section
*no real email support
*few if any sales
I quickly realized that these so-called affiliate networks were
totally pointless. And the owners knew it, yet they were
laughing all the way to the ATM machine! Needless to say, I
didn't respond when they asked if I was still interested in
purchasing their websites. Surprisingly, while sitting through
all of the scam artist's websites, I was able to locate a group
of individuals that actually ran profitable and legitimate
programs.
The owners were common folk like you and me that found a way to
earn extra money working from home on their computers. Their
membership areas were impressive, with a great deal of quality
information on how to make $100-$200 per day on your computer
doing very little work. I even chatted with a few of their
affiliates in several online forums, and they confirmed that
they were earning extra money using the information, support and
products that the affiliate websites had provided them. It was
like I found a few diamonds in the rough. But don't take my word
for it, you can drop by the over one dozen sites I found. See
what you think.
They DO NOT charge a minimal fee for access to their program,
which is to be expected for any legitimate program that actually
has people on staff who are dedicated to helping you get earning
online. What a warm group of people! Anyway, if you do decide
you are interested in any of the dozen companies, I advise you
to join post-haste, as the owners have informed me that they are
getting so many new affiliate members by word of mouth
referrals, that they will be blocking off membership completely
by month's end. (By the way, you didn't receive this news from
me!) They don't have a large enough staff to welcome many more
people, and they are driven to providing excellent service to
each person. Well, my quest to find legitimate online affiliate
programs has come to an end. I have to mention I was profoundly
disappointed with most of what I found, and I strongly urge you
not to take any chances doing business with any companies other
than the twelve I will share with you.
Whatever you do, I hope you and your loves ones have a healthy,
prosperous year.
Take care and I wish you all the best.