is affiliate marketing a pyramid scheme?

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I was talking to this website developer/designer this weekend and they described affiliate marketers as nothing more than people who engage in these shady pyramid scheme's.

I have no clue why they made this connection , but this person doesn't think it is possible to make money doing such a silly thing as setting up a website and selling products which you neither make, hold or create.

Over to you.
 


This is a pretty useless topic, you should read up on what a pyramid scheme is and maybe we wouldn't need to waste our collective bandwidth on this
 
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Yup. It's definitely a pyramid scheme.

Just like being a future shop employees are part of a huge pyramid scheme too... You know, promoting a product and collecting a commission.
 
corporate america is all a pyramid scheme. The guys at the top make the most and the ones at the bottom make the least. Just like a big pyramid.

But a true pyramid scheme is something that's funded by the new people coming into the pyramid, also known as a ponzi scheme. Affiliate marketing is just commissioned sales. You could become and affliate for xerox and sell copy machines for a % same as a salesman would.
 
hope it's not your website developer b/c they sound like they are cluefuckingless.

ke111 said:
I was talking to this website developer/designer this weekend and they described affiliate marketers as nothing more than people who engage in these shady pyramid scheme's.

I have no clue why they made this connection , but this person doesn't think it is possible to make money doing such a silly thing as setting up a website and selling products which you neither make, hold or create.

Over to you.
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Getting a bit off topic, but the original scheme that Ponzi came up with involving the arbitrage on international return stamps was actually really genius.
It's a pity he fucked it up so bad and started taking people's money to invest in the stamps, without actually investing in the stamps.
Near the end, he was pulling in something like $200,000US per week... and this was in the freakin 1920s!
 
ke111 said:
I was talking to this website developer/designer this weekend and they described affiliate marketers as nothing more than people who engage in these shady pyramid scheme's.

I have no clue why they made this connection , but this person doesn't think it is possible to make money doing such a silly thing as setting up a website and selling products which you neither make, hold or create.

Over to you.
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Are offline sales people pyramid scheme's?

They sell products that they don't make, hold or create either and yet they are socially acceptable, they don't have websites or fancy text graphics, ect... and yet they still make commisions from there work.

Tell dumb fucks that toss questions at you that little above statement and they will be speechless, then call them an idiot and walk away laughing.
 
No, this is good. This way of thought is a natural selection method to weed out the idiots and the disillusioned.
 
ke111 said:
I was talking to this website developer/designer this weekend and they described affiliate marketers as nothing more than people who engage in these shady pyramid scheme's.

I have no clue why they made this connection , but this person doesn't think it is possible to make money doing such a silly thing as setting up a website and selling products which you neither make, hold or create.

Over to you.
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Well... He's an idiot. There ya go.
 
ke111 said:
I was talking to this website developer/designer this weekend and they described affiliate marketers as nothing more than people who engage in these shady pyramid scheme's.

I have no clue why they made this connection , but this person doesn't think it is possible to make money doing such a silly thing as setting up a website and selling products which you neither make, hold or create.

Over to you.
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Yes it is.
 
Yes, it is. So don't[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] saturate the market[/FONT], I mean fall for the scam. In fact, sell your computer.
 
ke111 said:
I was talking to this website developer/designer this weekend and they described affiliate marketers as nothing more than people who engage in these shady pyramid scheme's.

I have no clue why they made this connection , but this person doesn't think it is possible to make money doing such a silly thing as setting up a website and selling products which you neither make, hold or create.

Over to you.
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No, monavie and the like are pyramid schemes.

Affiliate marketing and Performance marketing in general are given a bad rap because of all the ebook fucks and get rick quick / work from home / it just runs itself .. scammers.

Still, it's not the same, since it's not really a pyramid, since only one person actually buys a product in regular affiliate marketing, that commission is shared with all the middlemen unless you go direct, but it's still only one person buying.

Traditional pyramids require each agent/seller/owner to buy the product, the company pockets some % and the rest is sent upwards through the pyramid.
 
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Not only is affiliate marketing a pyramid scheme. According to sources, it reigns at the very top of all pyramids - as part of the Illuminati!!

The above diagram is representative of the true pyramid, which was last documented earlier this year by the Hubble Telescope, in orbit around Shoemoney.

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I still think they're alot of people who still think that in order to sell something, you have to be able to touch it and feel it and see (first).

I just couldn't understand how a person who designs professional websites for large corporations has yet to discover the power of internet advertising, which is what I liken affiliate marketing to. Instead of using TV or radio, affiliate marketers use the internet.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that these web designers are absolutely not focused on marketing because the companies they design for are already well known. So, all they are doing is design stuff and the SEO and marketing stuff is being farmed out to someone else.

Are people this clueless about internet advertising? I just assumed everyone was onto it because that's where all media is headed - on to the net!
 
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