Needing advice for new business model in 2012

In direct answer to your post - avoiding the necessary 'trial & error'
period of online business (or any biz for that matter) is honestly merely
a 'pipe-dream'. Due diligence is required for success in any undertaking,
especially one that involves an anticipated return on investment (ROI).

While affiliate marketing is one of the quickest and easiest ways to
'break into' online profits, there are some basic fundamentals that
must be learned and faithfully, and consistently applied.

Many quality resources and strategies are offered freely at online market
places like Clickbank and Click2sell, etc. Follow their instructions and a
reward for your efforts is probable.

However, the 'make-money-online' niche is well saturated, and
unfortunately, with too many of the WRONG products, strategies,
and services.

I wonder how many Internet marketers are really tired of receiving
promotions from other Internet marketers that aren't worth the time
it takes to read the promotional material.

Far too many products fail to live up to their hype, and I've yet to find
ANY that actually delivers any substantial, CONSISTENT, profit - - - AS
ADVERTISED ! ! !

I'm also tired of responding to messages sent by these marketers, hoping
to engage them in real dialogue about our mutual business endeavors,
only to have them bounce because they were generated by a 'no-reply'
auto-responder!

Even attempts to reach these persons using the contact info from their
ISP's has usually been unfruitful.

Consequently, I'm beginning today, a campaign against these types of
marketers by unsubscribing from their lists, and eliminating them from
my social networks. I'm also joining reputable FORUMS like this one,
where I know my thoughts will be received by credible colleagues.

I think it is high time for those of us within the Internet marketing
world to get REAL, by being honest and ethical in ALL phases of our biz!

We all hate to be scammed, but too few of us extend the same courtesy
to others when promoting numerous products. Are there any ethical
marketers who actually test products BEFORE promoting them?

Finally, before stepping down from my soap-box, I want to publicly
rebuke online market places like Clickbank (and others) for allowing
so many JUNK products to be promoted through their online market
places without better censorship.

I KNOW that they offer a 60 day refund policy, and I fully appreciate
that (and would be much more at a loss if it weren't for that). However,
I think it's high time that they take it a step further.

They all should ban from their vendor lists any product that gets refund
requests that are related to customer dis-satisfaction over claims made
in their sales pitches.

As for a recommendation for good mentor-ship, send me a PM, I'll direct you further.

I'm interested in hearing from my colleagues regarding this post. What
are your thoughts on this?

Thank you for your reply!

I would like to say that I am definitely not trying to escape the 'trial & error', as I have been doing that for the past year already. There are a lot of aspects about internet marketing that I truly enjoy. I am just wanting to outsource some of the more tedious tasks that will eat up my time since I will have the budget to do so.

I totally understand your feeling towards most internet marketers in the "make money online" niche, and I myself have been unsubscribing from many lists that don't provide real value.

Also, I definitely do not want to promote trashy Clickbank products. My goal is to help people succeed while doing the same for myself.

I appreciate your comments.

ok, first i know you said you dont want to build a list, but i will be as honest as i can be here. you really need to change your thinking on that.

you say you will have a decent bit of money to invest for paid advertising. thats great. but here is why you need to build a list. with no list building efforts, all of your paid advertising MUST make a profit directly. Without building a list you get no second chance.

Basically you are wanting to just go buy cold traffic which is entirely possible and send it to some sales page and have it convert at a rate that makes more money than you spend on advertising. That is a very tough task, especially for a relative newbie.

When you build a list, you get multiple chances to make a sale, and those people that you advertised to yesterday, may make you money tomorrow or next week if you have them on a list.

Its about making your advertising dollars have a long lasting affect.

If you are willing to change your thinking on building a list, I will proceed with some other ideas, but if not I probably wont be much help. My decade and a half in online business has taught me that building a list is the way to go in almost any niche.

outside of building a list, the next best idea is to promote a residual income program of some sort that has a high pain of separation service. which means once you get clients into a system you keep getting paid.