Must Resist...Don't Want To Be A Douche Bag...
I find myself in a bit of a delima, and I'm looking for some opinions, and maybe some thoughts on something.
I've been involved in the MMO niche for just about 2 years now, and along the way, have built a list, some trust, and a bit of a following to some extent.
In all that time, I've never given into the whole promote products as an affiliate deal, for a couple reasons.
1. The launches are usually so short, you really don't have time to buy them, and try them out before recommending them.
2. So many people doing it are just blatant douche bags meaning that they have no shame in blasting out 3 promotions a day for 3 different products pretty much saying the hell with their list as long as the get paid.
3. It was never really my (our) intention to be involved in the IM niche to that degree and extent.
The "problem" that I'm having and the reason that I'm even considering this again is that over the past 2 months, we have gotten probably somewhere around 25 emails from subscribers asking what we thought about a certain product and if we had an affiliate link. These were high end launches that paid commissions of approx $1,000 each, and I'm willing to bet that the folks went ahead and purchased anyway just from someone elses link.
My whole thought process here is this:
I know the way that the launch whores are perceived when they jump on every launch and promote just so someone else will promote them. At the end of they day they will say that they are doing it to try and "help" people, but it's pretty obvious that their intention is to sell products...whether they are good or bad.
What I'd really like to get here is some feedback from people as to the best way to promote the launches without being a launch whore and douche bag...
Would a simple disclosure something along the lines of:
I've never used this product, and don't really know how good it is, but here's my affiliate link be good enough?
To date, I've never promoted any sort of launch. If I buy something and I like it, I will typically send an email and give a link to the product with NO AFFILIATE LINK and most of the time without the product owner even knowing that I did it.
Edit Correction: I did one time send out a promotion for a $30 product from Kevin Riley with an affiliate link...
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