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Honestly?
I'm sick to death of people revealing our business over and over and over to surfers.
You know, when I started in the mid 90's, a surfer had no idea how our business works.
The selling point of a TGP was that I was a good guy who had found a bunch of porn on the internet and collected some pictures and linked to the site so they could join too.
10 years later, blogs came around. And the selling point was supposed to be that I am a good guy who found some great porn and I'm writing telling you about it and linking to it.
And Review sites are supposed to be like Consumer Reports and are good guys who have took the time to buy memberships at all these sites so they could review them and give you a link to the sites.
But I'll be damned if everybody and their brother hasn't spent the last few years breaking every rule of marketing. Complete websites dedicated to explaining all about affiliate programs and who is "bad" and who is "good"
We are the ONLY industry that I am aware of that is that damn stupid.
I don't see a car salesman forum that is open to the public (no password protection and no checking peoples credentials) that explains every trick of the trade and sales technique that they use on a daily basis. That would be suicide.
And you can replace "car salesman" with every business out there. NOBODY is dumb enough to take their CLOSED business and open it up and reveal the little man behind the curtain. EXCEPT all the newb's who got into this game over the last 7 to 8 years.
I'm sorry, but it just gets on my last nerve.
Please Zuzana...if you put up such a list, keep it confidential and put a user/pass on it and only show it to your clients.
Times are hard enough on the entire affiliate model as it is.
It's pretty obvious that the final nails have long been driven into it's coffin. But now with sites like daizzys and also review sites now listing the damn affiliate program beside the paysites...it feels like people are pissing on the grave of it as well.
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