Affiliate Marketing – The Conscientious Affiliate Marketer

Mar 14, 2009 in Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Training

Affiliate marketing success requires integrity. Have you seen Internet marketers that don’t appear to have a conscience? You most likely have. How would you feel about yourself if other people viewed you that way? It certainly wouldn’t be anything to be proud of, and it is something that you want to avoid.

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A conscientious affiliate marketer does not market affiliate products or services that essentially rip the customer off. They make sure that what they are promoting is of the highest quality, and that the company serves the customers well.

Conscientious affiliate marketers are honest and fair in all of their marketing and copywriting. They do not lead customers or potential customers to believe something that isn’t true. They do not use hype to market products. They use the facts and the true benefits of a product or service to sell it.

If you are a conscientious affiliate marketer, you will always be fair in your business dealings with others, such as joint venture agreements. You will not attempt to cheat anyone out of anything at any time. You will also be fair when dealing with affiliate managers. You want what is due to you, but you should return any overpayments that are sent to you immediately.

A conscientious affiliate marketer does not steal other people’s affiliate links. You don’t want anyone to replace your links with their own, so you shouldn’t do this to any other hard working affiliate either.

A conscientious marketer does not spam people – for any reason. They follow the rules that are set forth in the affiliate agreements and adhere to the terms and conditions for affiliates for each product or service that they sell.

Nobody ever really gets ahead by being dishonest. It may appear that they do, but that falsified success is very short lived. If you want to be successful for the long term, you must have a conscience and put your customers and their needs ahead of your needs or the company’s needs.

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7 comments

Fred Lotgering - Follow this person as @lotcon on Twitter
on March 14, 2009 at 8:44 PM

Doug,

You just wrote my profile (at least I hope to achieve that). It applies widely! I believe it is needed to be successful in life!

Fred

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Lonnie Minton - Follow this person as @AffiliateBus on Twitter
on March 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM

I try and I hope that in all of life, not just as an affiliate marketer that I am alway conscientious.

I agree that “Nobody ever really gets ahead by being dishonest.”

And in the end it ends up hurting many people.

Thanks for a good and timely post.

Ric Raftis - Follow this person as @RicRaftis on Twitter
on March 14, 2009 at 10:16 PM

Great post Doug. You only have one name in this business, well unless your name is really John Smith, but either way it’s the most valuable asset you have online. You must protect your name at all times and you can only do this by maintaining a high degree of integrity and ethics.

Cheers,

Mike Paetzold - Follow this person as @mikepaetzold on Twitter
on March 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM

The big thing is to know who you are promoting and the product so you can do that. Too often it is not because people are dis-honest but that they don’t do the due diligence necessary to make a recommendation.

Knowing the people behind the product is key because if there are service problems for your customer you name becomes mud too.

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Joel Osborne - Follow this person as @JoelOsborne on Twitter
on March 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM

Agreed 100%! Too many times I see people just going after the money with no care as to how it may affect other people.

There are too many scams online as it is, but people will still try to take advantage of the beginners who are new to the Internet.

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Luca Di Nicola - Follow this person as @rsonline on Twitter
on March 15, 2009 at 1:43 PM

Hi Doug,
Your advice applies to online and offline business. I’ve been in sales (offline) most of my life and honesty and integrity is what builds relationships.
Basically: do onto others as…

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Ron Barrett - Follow this person as @ronbarrett on Twitter
on March 17, 2009 at 7:28 AM

Hmmm…some great points. I think we have all been the ‘victim’ of somebody who is out just for the almighty buck. We sign up to their list to get a freebie, or whatever, and all we get from them is pitch after pitch after pitch. We are left with only one option.

Unsubscribe.

Hopefully there are more ‘good’ witches than ‘bad’ witches in the world.

Thanks for the info Doug.

Ron

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