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Are Affiliate Marketers Just A Bunch Of Scammers?

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by Carl Pruitt

Quite a few people are scared to pursue the income opportunities available through affiliate marketing because deep down they associate it with ripping people off. They think that if they become affiliate marketers, all they are going to be doing is selling people products they don’t really need and won’t ever use.

I can tell you for a fact there are dishonest marketers out there selling fake weight loss miracles, surefire ways for geeks to pick up women and any number of other dubious scams every day. Dishonest people have been around in every profession since the beginning of time.

But … Is affiliate marketing itself dishonest? My answer is no. I know that it has a bad reputation. I know that there are “work at home” scammers trying to get your money at every turn. That isn’t what affiliate marketing is.

With a recession starting, many people have a real need to make extra money without sacrificing their family life. Affiliate marketing is truly an opportunity to have the income you need from that part time job (and hopefully later full time) but still be in control of your time and your life. Most important, you can be in control of the results.


The key principle that you must wrap your mind around is that affiliate marketig isn’t selling anything. Affiliate marketing started out as just another form of advertising for businesses which had good products but no advertising budget yet. Whoever came up with it was a genius. Now businesses of all sorts are using it to promote their products.

Your job as an affiliate marketer is to find out which people need the product, locate where they are, and make sure they know about it. It is up to the business and the product to make the sales. The whole thing is really just that simple. Get your mind around that principle and the rest of the equation will fall in line.

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