Comments on: Value Trojans & Free Training Webinar (Wednesday 10/28/09 10:45 PST)

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:34:37 +0000

Franck – it all comes to keeping a relationship honest – I am not panicking over the FTC but lots of blogs should be, or should at the very least respect their users more.

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:03:12 +0000

The content was just awesome. As for the affiliate links and blogs, I’ll try to finish the FTC guide tomorrow. But I never had a problem to buy through an aff link is the review is valid.

Franck
Martial Artist
Internet Business Coach

By: Humor Blog

Humor Blog — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:49:43 +0000

I’m using too link affiliate but is not really helping my blog to build giant link building.

By: fashion

fashion — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:34:14 +0000

Must have been great for those managed to attend it. Well, if one is getting free useful information then I dont think, it hurts to check out some of the affiliate links.

By: Sarah D

Sarah D — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:49:53 +0000

How was it guys good?

i missed it but wondered if it was any good. i’ll have to catch it next time!

its sounded really good , annoyed i didnt get to watch

By: Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:17:32 +0000

Andy,
Thanks for a) publishing my comment and b)taking the time to write up the response — many people wouldn’t have done either.

I totally understand where you’re coming from, and know that you aren’t one who puts money > all.

Probably it was just the brevity, as you mentioned.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

Kevin

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:28 +0000

You missed the seminar based on the time of your comment, so I deleted your link.

Mike still might have the videos available.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:12:01 +0000

I often do link to stuff without affiliate links

But here is the crunch

I have watched Mike’s videos 3 times, and have a copy saved on my HD – I think the concept and some of the subtle nuances are that good. I watched the videos when he had his first launch and even had the opportunity to promote this then as an affiliate, but I chose not to because he linked to a product I wasn’t happy with promoting – he didn’t even use an affiliate link for that. He didn’t link to earn money, just for clarification.
Mike isn’t teaching how to make money promoting CPA offers, but the nuts and bolts of running your own. It is advanced sometimes geeky stuff.

If I am encouraging someone to buy something, I either offer my own bonuses, or do something crazy – link to other people offering bonuses instead even though I know that that is throwing money away.

In fact in the last 4 or 5 months I have actually driven more sales for other people offering bonuses than sales I have made myself

Mike’s content rocks if you want to create your own CPA offers, and I could either use affiliate links or not – whether someone buys through an affiliate link or not they will pay the same price.

If someone buys something and I get credited for an affiliate sale… great, if they don’t buy, still great but I hope people at least watch the videos for free as they rock.

I normally blatantly disclose but this was posted in a rush, I didn’t even set up tracking links – but the link itself says “affiliate.html” – better disclosure than all the masked links on twitter. Talking of Twitter, every tweet I published about this was to this post, not a direct affiliate link.

I normally spend a lot more time on the articles, I have/had plans for 2 articles covering Mike’s product, with some in-depth examples/case studies, but in many ways that effort is wasted on my audience as they rarely buy anything anyway.

By: Review Unit

Review Unit — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:18:56 +0000

im not going to miss it

By: Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:57:21 +0000

This is exactly the sort of post that makes it difficult for me to trust anything that internet marketers say. I like your blog Andy, but can anybody recommend services/products without throwing affiliate links all over the place?