A prime example of why you need to do your research before promoting a product (MEGA WARNInG).

Fifth problem: none of the testimonials say anything about actually achieving results. Most of them are the kind you get when you hand out review copies just before launching, not the kind of feedback you get from satisfied users.

With that as the sales page, I'd be extremely leery of the actual product.

A prime example of why you need to do your research: the $50 product setup fee is not per month, it's one time. For $50, the vendor gets his product promoted by affiliates who don't bother looking at the sales page, and he's set things up so most of the time he never even has to pay a commission.

Always bear in mind that there's no downside to the vendor if you don't get your commission. In fact, if you don't get a commission, that usually means the vendor gets paid more.

I've always had this vague notion that a vendor should never be an affiliate to his own product, and once he's started an affiliate program, some affiliate should be paid commission on every sale. If you don't know which affiliate to pay, some sort of rule should be used to select one - perhaps you select the affiliate who has most recently made a sale, or who hasn't made a sale in the longest time, or who has earned the most or the least commission this affiliate pay cycle.

I lean in the direction of least commission this pay cycle with ties broken by time since last sale (longest time without commission wins). This would basically guarantee that EVERY affiliate makes a commission sooner or later, if only because they sat around twiddling their thumbs until they had gone the longest without a sale. If you have N affiliates who never promote your product at all, each of those affiliates is guaranteed a commission every N sales without an affiliate.

Basically, the vendor should NEVER make extra money if there's no affiliate.

Just sort of thinking out loud.

Of course you should not be promoting a page or product like this, I wouldn't call this "research" as much as common sense.

If someone is willing to slap up an affiliate site or marketing campaign without even looking at the vendor's landing page - then they will not be successful - PERIOD!

Jeff