I'm Just Sharing

I’m glad to get comments on my blog any time I can get them. This then gives me a chance to see what’s on the minds of people and address them either by commenting back or, in this case, writing a post specific to the issues.

In this case, I’ve received a few messages regarding one of the companies that I market as an affiliate. Truth be told, I don’t know all that much about the company except that the things they make look very nice when you look at the pictures. The other truth to be told is that, quite often, many affiliate marketers don’t know a lot about the things they market. That’s because we can market so many things that it’s impossible to know about all of them. The one thing I’ve yet to do is accept paid advertising, though that’s not beyond the realm of possibility if this blog ever grows its readership to a level where I might actually make some real money off it. For instance, there’s a blog at a site called johnchow.com where he accept paid advertising, and makes a heck of a lot of money, and even showed his income report for the month of February; wow! But I can guarantee that I will never write any paid reviews; just not my style.

Anyway, I market close to 75 different companies and product lines, and I’ll admit that I don’t know a lot about most of them. There are some I do know about, who I’d stand behind no matter what anyone said, but others might make me want to check into them more, which I’m going to do on the one company that was mentioned, because it won’t do me much good if overall reviews are trash on someone, right? Now, every company makes someone mad, and that’s to be expected, but when a lot of people jump on the bandwagon, like they did with Comp USA, well, you know it’s time to stand up and take notice.

So, there you go. Internet affiliate marketing is different than regular marketing because in regular marketing you only work for one company, you take time to build relationships with a few long term clients, and you hit the phones and cold call to try to gain new clients. Online, you try to set something up where, hopefully, you entice people to at least take a moment to look at something you’re marketing, and then hope they’ll go to the site, through your link, and check out other products that company may offer. But I make money only when people buy things; I don’t know the company president, I don’t know any of the management working at the companies, I don’t know any of the sales clerks, and I don’t know where a lot of them are located. But, if asked, if you can’t get satisfaction after a sale, I will name the company who I contract with to be allowed to market these items, and, since I know this particular company is definitely high quality, and wouldn’t want to be associated with someone whose products were substandard, a complaint to them might help you get your issues resolved. No promises, but I’m sure if enough people contacted them they’d be on alert.

So there you go. Now, from a company I do know something about, take a look at this:

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