Ethics in Affiliate Marketing

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So the general consensus seems to be that ethics should be ignored in affiliate marketing, and business in general. Let me ask these questions then,

Would you steal a landing page from a fellow affiliate as in this thread: http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/58581-copying-competitors-landing-pages.html (most of you seemed incredibly against that idea)

Would you sell alternative medicine products to someone with an illness that with normal medical solutions could be cured, but with alternative medecine would die?

Would you run a a botnet, install adware, viruses etc on peoples computers for finical gain?

Would you run Nigerian email scams?

I would hope most of you wouldn't do the things above, but your concept of "no ethics in business" indicates you would do whatever it takes to make a dime.
 


aeisn said:
So the general consensus seems to be that ethics should be ignored in affiliate marketing, and business in general. Let me ask these questions then,

Would you steal a landing page from a fellow affiliate as in this thread: http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/58581-copying-competitors-landing-pages.html (most of you seemed incredibly against that idea)

Would you sell alternative medicine products to someone with an illness that with normal medical solutions could be cured, but with alternative medecine would die?

Would you run a a botnet, install adware, viruses etc on peoples computers for finical gain?

Would you run Nigerian email scams?

I would hope most of you wouldn't do the things above, but your concept of "no ethics in business" indicates you would do whatever it takes to make a dime.
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I steal peoples ideas, but everyone does it - I don't set out to make revolutions in marketing, I just want to put my effort in what I think will work. Usually by combining several aspects of the best webpages I can find on a niche.

No

No

No, yes(with their consent), no

There's a slight difference between an acai rebill and killing someone by giving them the wrong medicine also..
 
zimok said:
I steal peoples ideas, but everyone does it - I don't set out to make revolutions in marketing, I just want to put my effort in what I think will work. Usually by combining several aspects of the best webpages I can find on a niche.

No

No

No, yes(with their consent), no

There's a slight difference between an acai rebill and killing someone by giving them the wrong medicine also..
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Obviously these are more severe than acai rebills, I am just trying to demonstrate that people do have some standard of ethics in business and affiliate marketing.
 
John__N said:
money can be made without fooling people. the difference is it takes time. and anyways the money made fast fooling people does harm u in the long run in different ways. so that fast money is not worth the "time saved" making it. i know most people would not agree with me, but thats me and i can say that from personal experience. It does not always harm that quickly but have a honest review on urself over 30-40 years n u can understand that well.
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apart from atheist people here, i feel most guys here belong to the "People Of The Book" whether it be Judaism, Christianity or Islam and believe in life after death.

Doing something wrong and accepting it is a different thing, we all r humans.

But calling things right just to fool ourselves into hiding our sins is a different story.

Come on we are not animals. Good businessmen do not need the help of stupid people to succeed. They can sell to smart people.
Aaron Wall of SEOBook is a living example.

And for those who dont believe in the Almighty, i dont have anything to explain you.
 
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John__N said:
apart from atheist people here, i feel most guys here belong to the "People Of The Book" whether it be Judaism, Christianity or Islam and believe in life after death.

Doing something wrong and accepting it is a different thing, we all r humans.

But calling things right just to fool ourselves into hiding our sins is a different story.

Come on we are not animals. Good businessmen do not need the help of stupid people to succeed. They can sell to smart people.
Aaron Wall of SEOBook is a living example.

And for those who dont believe in the Almighty, i dont have anything to explain you.
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Don't forget those who believe* in Church of Satan --

1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!

2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!

3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit!

4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!

6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!

7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!

8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!

9. Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!
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*I don't follow any religion but I agree with the above principles. Even my own religion (Sikhism) is pretty cool as it is mostly an anti-religion religion.

Don't fucking bring the hypothetical shit like this here. If you want to discuss this bullshit, I am sure you will find a lot of ass lickers on WarriorForum to agree with you.
 
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Lord B said:
Don't forget those who believe* in Church of Satan --



*I don't follow any religion but I agree with the above principles. Even my own religion (Sikhism) is pretty cool as it is mostly an anti-religion religion.

Don't fucking bring the hypothetical shit like this here. If you want to discuss this bullshit, i am sure you will find a lot of ass lickers on WarriorForum to agree with you.
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I repeat


And for those who dont believe in the Almighty, i dont have anything to explain you.
 
aeisn said:
Would you steal a landing page from a fellow affiliate as in this thread: http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/58581-copying-competitors-landing-pages.html (most of you seemed incredibly against that idea)
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Hello friend,

Many affiliate marketer do steal page of landing. Some steal and change little some change lot some change none expect affiliate link.

They just no want other for steal and give move compeptition and bids higher. So try convince other no steal.

Good luck bro
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
Everyone knows the best way to lose weight is to get off your ass and put down the twinkies. But people are lazy, so we sell them on Acai.

Everyone knows nothing in this world is free, but they want a handout anyway, so we sell them on grants.

Everyone knows starting your own business is difficult and fraught with failure, but they want easy money from home so we sell them on Bizopps.

Affiliates fill a demand, we don't create it. That's no more unethical than the fat, lazy uneducated fucker that wants everything in life without working for it. If anything, we provide a service - we educate the public one rebill at a time to stop looking for a magic bullet. Get off your ass and work for what you want. To all those consumers I say - You're Welcome.
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Jebus, that was almost poetic. +repcopter
 
Please don't tell me this thread is turning into a religious post-off battle,

It is isn't it?

Jesus fucking Christ... *facepalm*
 
John__N said:
I repeat

And for those who dont believe in the Almighty, i dont have anything to explain you.
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^^, NANANAA, I can't hear you Mr. Reason.
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Mr. Grammar is also having a communication breakdown.

Grow up man.
 
The only ones that want to raise the ethics question are the failures and the noobs. Anyone successful in this business has already developed advanced coping mechanisms to help them smother any spark of guilt before it has a chance to potentially grow into anything that might jeopardize their business.
 
kingofsp said:
Anyone successful in this business has already developed advanced coping mechanisms to help them smother any spark of guilt before it has a chance to potentially grow into anything that might jeopardize their business.
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Could you elaborate on this point?
 
Just out of college in 96 I went to work for one of the biggest internet porn companies at the time that then got into the online gambling biz. I left them and freelanced for awhile doing a lot of club and rave flyers, "rave promotion", and continued on in the online gaming biz. I then went to work for one of the biggest gaming marketing companies at the time as senior designer and that company then got bought out by a tobacco baron from Singapore and made the in-house marketing team of what is a rather large online sports betting/casino/poker company. It's all there in my resume.

Fuck ethics. The world is a shit hole. Nothing you do or don't do is going to change that. As long as you aren't breaking any major laws I wouldn't worry yourself about it.
 
yea this world is a pretty fucked up, every now and then I try to donate some money I made from affiliate marketing to charity if I can.
 
Ethics in affiliate marketing is what it is. neither good or bad. you place the meaning in what your doing.
 
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