Ok, Is All This BS Any Good?

You're not going to like my answer.

Nobody here can be your conscience. If your business model bothers you,
change it. If you can't or won't change it, learn to live with it.

Make sure if you are going to endorse products that you either personally review them, so that you can feel good about them. If you don't, then stop selling them.

Toni if you have trouble sleeping at night you have a problem. If you are giving advice to people and you are not qualified you are on dangerous ground, however, if you are just linking people up with information that is readily available anyway i suggest that is as far as you go.

The best way to really 'get behind' a product is to actually buy it and see for yourself if it's any good to promote. If it is you're on to a winner (so as to speak)

If it's not you can sleep well at night knowing that you did the right thing in taking that one extra step.

As Steven "Said "Nobody here can be your conscience. If your business model bothers you, change it. If you can't or won't change it, learn to live with it."

I wil start creating my own stuff soon I guess.

I couldn't get myself to promote products just because of that. So I dumped that idea, looked at what me and my company are capable of, found a problem and now we're developing a solution.

I think this is always the best process to go with.

I think every IM'er has asked themselves this question.

Yup Dejan,

I think that is exactly what I will do. Invest some of the money I earned to create
high f****** qualitiy solutions.

Thanks Lee barlett for pushing me and motivating me

Thanks for all you warriors replying here.

I have stayed out of certain product niches because I can not personally get behind them. But that is not what product marketing on the internet is about, so I have opened up a little bit. If a product is not objectionable, if the promises are not blatantly wrong, and the competion sites reasonable with their approach, I'll now consider it.

We are marketers. We have a business. If I had an ad agency, I certainly won't turn away business because I started to second guess the product. I look at it as, is there a way I can promote this product and make money for the company that hired me? We are affiliate marketers, we make money for the product holders. Our job is to find a way to truthfully and convincingly create promotions to do that. If we do, we get paid.

If HOW I market it is not going to agree with me, then I don't do that product; making a million does not offset advertising a questionable product.

But, it sounds like these couple of niche products are not objectionable, there is just that personal dilemma you are facing. Since your customers have a need, and the product is satisfying that need, one way to judge the effectiveness are the returns and refunds. If you said anything about that, I missed it.

Instead, these people are turning to you for help. That's good, but it probably keeps you busy in an area where you don't want to spend so much time. You're an affilaite marketer, not a advice giver. When an advertising is done, the product holder runs with it, maybe some salespeople too. They are in the forefront after that, the ad agency has been removed from the relationship.

So how can we, as marketers find a way to distance ourselves from the customers, or potential customers as advice givers but still stay on as a salesperson? Our main job is to market, to advertise. The program we're in should be the one to deliver most of the intangibles, shouldn't it?

Maybe there has to be something added in the presell or sales copy to help alliviate all of the email?

Am I making any sense?

Hey Toni,

I sometimes also feel like this. And you know what? If I was earning what you are
earning I would be making my own products and outsource everything.

And I know you a great guy since you helped me tremendously via email and
without charging anything. I enjoyed it. But business is business and giving
info for free when you are an infomarketer is not the right thing I guess.

It's great that you have a conscious =) but the truth is you're no different than a lot of affiliate marketers.

If it bothers you, try to think of products you HAVE used or problems that you or someone you know HAVE had and how they resolved. Them. Walk through your house and write down everything you see that is a potential...look in your medicine cabinet, look on your shelves, look at everything around you that you use. What do your kids use/have used? Husband? Mom, dad, brother, sister, neighbors, friends, co-workers? What problems have they had that they solved that you know about?

If you are just one more member marketing (affiliate program) and driving traffic to see the information at the site. There is nothing to worry about! But if your are the one running the show you should know and like what you are doing.