Affiliate marketing dead by end of year..

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As internet marketing becomes more and more popular, more and more people are jumping into it. Fortunately, the learning curve is pretty steep so a shitload of them will fall off and do something else within months.

And to say affiliate marketing is dead ... well that newsletter is just some linkbait .... more like troll bait. It's really the dumbest thing i've read today.

The amount of commerce on the web keeps growing every year. The size of the internet (sites) grows every year. Why wouldn't the amount of potential for affiliate marketing follow that same trend?


Also please post the email of that fool who sent you that shit so we can fill his inbox with dirty horse porn.
 


Based on some of the comments in other forums about AdWords accounts being slapped because of low-quality landing pages, it looks like affiliate marketing died today. :D
 
Death of AFF Marketing

Affiliate Marketing in one form or another has been around for many many years and long before the Net was born so will it die... Hell no...

However Affiliate Marketing is metamorphosing in ways that were not thinkable in the late 90s when I got in. The fact of the matter is that you have networks like CJ that are in my view struggling. However the reason they are struggling is not because Affiliate Marketing is dying but rather because Affiliate Marketing is changing.

I can remember when talking of cpc (let alone cpm) deals at CJ was tabu. and that it only delivered fraudulent traffic.. Is there anybody out there who thinks of cpc as taboo??? I don't think so. As a result, affiliate marketing has to evolve into something much more flexible. It has to become multi channels, multi payout types and it has to reinvent itself to incorporate guerrilla marketing technique that we (affiliate marketers) invented in the 90s and early 2000.

I don't have a newsletter but I predict a long life for affiliate marketing but not necessarily in the form that we've known it until recently.

My two cents,

Jean
 
jtouboul said:
Affiliate Marketing in one form or another has been around for many many years
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Affiliate marketing is nothing more than commissioned selling. It's been around forever. Companies that make products often don't have the knowledge or wherewithal to effectively promote them. So they say, "Here, if you sell this widget, you get 25% of the sale." Or, "Point people to my widget and I'll pay you a flat $x." I've promoted for companies that had their heads so far up their asses they couldn't run even a mediocre AdWords campaign. So that's why they turn to the specialists--the people who do this kind of thing on a daily basis.
 
Ha...funny.

Guess what? Everything will eventually change so I predict the end of the world by years end.

This sounds to me like someone started affiliate marketing with your typical, over saturated, ring tones, credit cards, dating type of offers and got their ass kicked.

Carry on.
 
jtouboul said:
Affiliate Marketing in one form or another has been around for many many years and long before the Net was born so will it die... Hell no...
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Marketing has been around since Jesus invented the printing press and made the first bible....everyone knows that.

Why are people so afraid of change?

Change, new rules, and new regulations happen. Get used to it.

The key points don't change:

Find the money. Get the money. If the money goes away find out where it went. Get more money.

Any place, where two or more are gathered: some one is marketing.

The internet has lots of "two or mores" gathering everyday.

What makes you think this will ever stop happening?

I can think of tons of new markets (some that already are profitable) that will develop and are developing because of this new influx of curiosity and interest into the Aff Marketing world.

You are sitting (cyber-sitting) right in the middle of one of them.

It's only going to get better and more creative and more competitive.

If you are afraid of competition: remove yourself from human society.

Otherwise, plan ahead and work your asses off.

/sermon
 
If your business model is to depend on one website (google) for all of your earnings, you deserve it. :)
 
its all good for me. do some original shit. who cares what some guy says, the strongest survive either way.
 
mreed said:
Find the money. Get the money. If the money goes away find out where it went. Get more money.
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This is exactly correct. The point of the column the OP posted was that it's getting harder to make money because of the glut of people entering affiliate marketing. I remember the early, heady days of Ebay when I could sell 50 cent thrift shop junk for $45. No more. These days you're lucky if it goes for $1.99, and the site and Paypal will pick your pocket before they're through with you.

I have confidence that wherever the affiliate marketing money goes, this site will be the first to follow it, and report on the next big thing. But I noticed that sometimes people here rampage over an opinion contrary to confirmed belief as troll bait. The post is just food for thought, I take it seriously, and want to know what's next because the business is evolving.
 
Yep, adapt or die.

6 years ago I was posting casino ads on FFA sites and making $1000 a month. 4 years ago I was placing insurance quote ads on adwords for 10 cents and making money.

CJ
 
Rather than waste space writing a long reply.

The surest form that CPA and aff mktg is dead is the fact that Google is doing trials on CPA and will likely enter that space later this year.

Based on that, you should quit affiliate marketing now because it's going to be dead.

Yes, and you should believe everything you read too because the fact that someone said it in a newsletter means that it's obviously true.
 
HellaGood said:
This is exactly correct. The point of the column the OP posted was that it's getting harder to make money because of the glut of people entering affiliate marketing.
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I understand this point, however my point is don't fear the bullshit.

The more people competing in any industry=more money. The dude writing that newsletter is trying to carve out his piece of the pie. Just like everyone else.

Not easier money. More money.

You have to go where the people are and sell them what they want.

and by "sell" I mean "motivate to buy"

Two things motivate most animals, including monkeys: fear and pleasure

The author of the newsletter is obviously motivating with fear. What's the next email say? or the 7th one? Somewhere in there he's got something for sale, right?

I'm sure you've heard it before: more money was made by those selling picks and axes and other industry related supplies, during the California gold rush, than by those striking gold.

THIS DOESN'T MEAN WRITE A SHITTY EBOOK.

Hard work and smarts will always win. Hardworking smart people thrive on competition.

Competition=higher standards = MORE MONEY.

Deliver a good product and people will thank you.
And by "thank you" I mean "give you money."

Market corrections happen, expect them, out think them.
 
I make tons of money in one of the msot saturated markets out there. The reality is most people are simply chaff. You see all these people talking about stuff, but few people actually know what they are doing and actually are capable to execute it. So the bark is MUCH worse than the bite in many cases.... But you do have to learn, and the sooner you get it in the more you will have learned which means the better position you will be in.

Do you think increased competition and an expansion of the market will be harder on established people or new people? It is clearly going to be harder on the newer people, less seasoned people, less experienced people. So all that means is you need to get working now, and work harder than ever to stay in front of the mass of humanity.

Not to mention think of all the NEW opportunities will open up to sell to people who want to make money without working. You think it is bad now, it is nowhere near a critical mass. Your knowledge will become very valuable to those without it.

By the way the notion that affiliate marketing is going to die is just dumb. It fails to even acknowledge the reasons why affiliate marketing exists in the first place, and that is guaranteed return on investment for businesses who market their products that way. That is NEVER going to go away.
 
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