Is Affiliate Marketing Profitable?

Hello fellow Affiliate Marketers,

My question today has to do with sales

and New product Launches creating Affiliate sales for Internet Marketers.

Can you make money as an Affiliate in todays Market?  Yes and No.  There

is money to be made on the Market today as an Affiliate as long as you go about

it the right way! I purposely held off from posting this so my emotions would not

get the better of my copy and/or comments. If I had posted this yesterday I would

probably been blacklisted or banned from the Internet or something of the sort

because I am very upset about a certain new Launch that just took place and I feel

that I have every right to be so. Let me tell you what I am talking about;

For the last 2 weeks I have been feverishly promoting a certain pre-launch of

a new product that to this day I fully stand behind as an Awesome and useful tool

and system for any Marketers Business, I was told in the very beginning when approached

to be a JV on this product to use the Clickbank ID Affiliate URL so that all pre-sales could

be tracked and was assured that anyone clicking through with my Url would be cookied

with my Affiliate ID. OK, no problem, I rolled with it even though I would usually cloak

a Clickbank ID to keep the Commission thieves out of my pocket.

Results are in, I had 56 confirmed clicks on my ads for the product , Yes I tracked

all of my ads, All 62 of them! I was not real pleased with the results because I figured

on more clicks than I recieved but just discounted that to the amount of JV’s onboard

that were also promoting this certain product. 56 clicks through to the site supposedly

assured that if these people ended up purchasing the product I would get the commission,

The Launch was a big success and is still going strong right now, My sales? A big

fat 0, nada, zilch, Nothing ! out of 56 people? come on folks, something is not right in

Dodge tonight! Is there a reason? I do believe there is!  This is strictly my opinion and

may not be shared by others but I am typing this and I will have my say!

On the day of the Launch every Big Gun, Super Affiliate came out with their ads with

Big bonuses if you signed up with their Affiliate ID, no problem, I have my people cookied

supposedly for my protection against such actions. I have no problem with Super Affiliates

doing business the way that they do, Most of the bonuses are great products all by themselves,

and I realize they have to do that to compete with the other Super Affiliates but…What happen

to my cookies??? Where did my sales Go???  Was it all just a farce to get me to promote the

product for them so they didn’t have to until launch day?

I recieved 21 ads for the product myself on Launch day (yes i am on everybody’s list)

without ever recieving one prelaunch ad. Even  the Owner of the product has sent me

several ads trying to sell me the product after I have reviewed the entire thing long before

it Launched, No problem, It’s Salesmanship and I love it! But… Where did my money go???

I have come to a conclusion on Affiliate Marketing, If you want to make money on

Affiliate sales do not let them suck you in on a Pre-launch so-called JV venture! If

you do not have 1000’s of freebies to give away as bonuses with a simple product that

cost Under a hundred dollars! Don’t even try to compete with the Super Affiliates.

All you are going to do is work your tail off for someone else, You will not get the sales,

I will still be an Affiliate but I will be more selective as to what I promote and

when I promote it. I am out 250 in advertising and approximately 2500 in sales that

should be in my Clickbank account right now. Am I bitter? yes I am and I believe this

is one of the Biggest scams on the Internet today! If I can prevent anyone from

getting abused as I was than all of this typing will not have been in vain. Wake up

people! They are not playing the same game as us Honest individuals that are simply

trying to make a living in a devistated economy. Evidently cookies are not enough

to secure a sale so do more to protect yourself if you do get into one of these deals.

Ok, I just reread my article and I don’t believe I stepped on anyone’s toes even

though I wanted to, I kept it clean but got my point out.  Please be careful where you

do business and with who you do business with on the Internet today because there

are many unscrupulous individuals out there that will abuse and rob you if given the

chance!

I am currently creating a product that directly applies to this situation in a big way

but this setback has prevented me from completeing it, If you would like to be a part of

something Huge and something that every Marketer can and will utilize in their Online

Business in one aspect or another then help me out just a little bit. Anyone interested

in a percentage of the profits from the sale of this tool can get in for a modest fee of

$150.00  and I will guarantee 5% of total sales for each $150.00 contributed. Yes I will

absorb the taxes on my end and product delivery will also be my job, If interested just

leave a message at leprechaun1349@gmail.com or lepretrim47@yahoo.com and I will

contact you with all the details. Have a wonderful day and God Bless!

Timothy Millar

“The Leprechaun”

~ by Timothy Millar on October 30, 2008.