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Health cure products - promote your own or send them to Clickbank?

by uwa223
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I have promoted my own tangible products since 2001 and have done well. But now I'm starting to promote health info products. I know that you can get in trouble for providing treatments or cure info to sufferers. For example - selling a treatment for vaginal yeast infection that worsen the problem for the sufferer.

Would you promote your own health product or send them to the "experts" at clickbank and let them be responsible for anything that goes wrong?

You can still be held responsible for referring them to a clikbank product, but I think it could be worst if you sell them your own product and something goes terribly wrong.

What do you think?
#clickbank #cure #health #products #promote #send
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by uwa223 View Post

    Would you promote your own health product
    Not without adequate, professional, qualified legal and medical advice from people who been to law school and from people who have been to medical school, not just from marketers posting in a forum.

    Originally Posted by uwa223 View Post

    or send them to the "experts" at clickbank and let them be responsible for anything that goes wrong?
    "Sending" people to "experts" at ClickBank doesn't absolve you of all responsibility: the FTC, other regulators and courts certainly don't think so, anyway.

    Originally Posted by uwa223 View Post

    I think it could be worst if you sell them your own product and something goes terribly wrong.
    Yes, I agree. The vendor is probably assuming the higher risk, overall.

    I'm only an affiliate, not a vendor. I'm very careful about the sales pages of the products I promote ( http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932 ). I happen to be in the lucky position of having a degree in a related subject and a couple of MD's in my immediate family, and I don't promote any "health information" product until they've read it and told me they think it's perfectly safe. I do sometimes wonder how other people manage to decide. These niches can certainly be a moral and legal minefield for the unwary. :confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author uwa223
      Thank you Alexa,
      While promoting supplements, I only dealt with manufacturers with good reputations and those who had a good insurance coverage in place that covered the resellers in case a user filed a claim.

      I'm not as lucky - having health professional in the family - or as knowledgeable as you are in the health niche and will have to rely on my own research and what I know a lot about.

      I will do some research and only promote products that are selling well, have a low refund rate and have been listed on CB 3-5 years to get started. This would make things a little safer - I think.

      Thanks again,
      Frank

      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Not without adequate, professional, qualified legal and medical advice from people who been to law school and from people who have been to medical school, not just from marketers posting in a forum.



      "Sending" people to "experts" at ClickBank doesn't absolve you of all responsibility: the FTC, other regulators and courts certainly don't think so, anyway.



      Yes, I agree. The vendor is probably assuming the higher risk, overall.

      I'm only an affiliate, not a vendor. I'm very careful about the sales pages of the products I promote ( http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932 ). I happen to be in the lucky position of having a degree in a related subject and a couple of MD's in my immediate family, and I don't promote any "health information" product until they've read it and told me they think it's perfectly safe. I do sometimes wonder how other people manage to decide. These niches can certainly be a moral and legal minefield for the unwary. :confused:
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by uwa223 View Post

        I will do some research and only promote products that are selling well, have a low refund rate and have been listed on CB 3-5 years to get started. This would make things a little safer - I think.
        Yes - I'm sure those are good things to do, and will get the odds more in your favor. Good luck, Frank!
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I wouldn't promote any product that calls itself a cure. You can be and marketers have been jailed for doing so. Jail is not a very comfortable place to be.
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  • Profile picture of the author zaccks
    get your product reviewed and approved by health experts in your country to ensure that all information is accurate.

    also use your "Terms And Conditions agreement" Wisely. you should contact a lawyer if there's a need

    when you're done with this, sell your product the way you want to
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