On Nov 3, 2:03 am, Moderator <meldo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had anyexperiencewith affiliate web sites? (adult content
> or google adsense and so on)
> Are these things just another program where the little guy busts his
> ass generating customers for a company and gets essentially nothing in
> return?
> Do you have to generate a gazillion referrals just to make a few
> cents?
> Sometimes I wonder if anything is worth the effort.
or more likely one or more of their affiliates, were engaging in
predatory practice against any effort I would make at having any
success at their program.
I recently became an affiliate for another unrelated program and found
overwhelming evidence that the previous sponsor viewed me as a traitor
or a competitor.
The analogy is like being a salesman for a company. First, other
salespeople treat you as a competitor and seek to undermine your
success. Inevitably you fail to produce so you leave for another
company and the first company treats you as a defector.
What may be worse is working for the first company and in generating
any sales for them; they seek to dupe you out of your commission. This
is a worse case scenario but as I have experienced with some previous
affiliate programs, seems not only plausible but also commonplace.
I hope the new sponsor is a bit better and there is every indication
they are, but the competition lies with other affiliates who are in
essence competing against each other just as the analogy of the
salespeople shows. I guess that’s why I would never be successful at a
sales position. I simply don’t consider those kinds of behaviors as
ethical or moral.
Finally, if that’s what it takes to succeed, then I’d rather fail. The
reason being, I would not wish to succeed in a society that preys on
unsuspecting and innocent people who are taught not to cheat. I can’t
think of a reason why anyone would wish to live in the resulting
society.
The idiom, “cheaters never prosper” is clearly false but I believe it
is more accurate to say that cheaters always prosper until they are
prevented from cheating. I think people should do more to uphold
ethical and moral treatment of other people. I guess that’s pretty
naive but so be it. We make our choices in life and our choices shape
the society we live in as well as society shaping our choices.
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