A major concern
of mine for people who only earn money
from associate programs is that the rug can be pulled
out from under you.
It's all very
well building excellent mini sites and
making sure pages score highly in the search engines.
But what happens
if the associate program closes?
What if the
affiliate program commissions are changed
such that you earn $0.25 per click instead of $0.50...
but you know all your pay per click campaigns are only
profitable if you earn over $0.35 per click?
Nightmare!
Here's a very
real example which I received a few days
ago from c2it, the Citibank-backed person-to-person
payment system (kind of like PayPal)...
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https://www.c2it.com/
Dear Neil
Shearing,
We want to
thank you for participating in the c2it (SM)
service publisher program, and to advise you that we
will be terminating our program on September 30th,
2002.
We will continue
to pay a $5 commission for every
approved c2it account that you generate until September
30th, 2002. However, international sales must be
conducted before September 30th to be eligible for the
additional commission.**
c2it links
will be deactivated on September 30th, 2002!
c2it creative links will be removed from the CJ
interface on September 30th, 2002. You are no longer
authorized to feature c2it advertising on your site(s)
or within emails at that time. After September 30th,
you will not be eligible for any commissions on c2it
enrollments (leads) and or c2it transactions (sales).
If you have
any questions pertaining to this news,
please feel free to contact me. We apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause you.
We have enjoyed
working with you.
Regards,
c2it Affiliate
Manager
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Hmmm, not
much fun if you were referring people to
their program and earning $5 per referral!
My advice
is to make money from associate programs
while you create your own product.
Once you've
launched your own product, you can use
affiliate links to "backend" sell to your customers...
but the "frontend" (your products) give you that all
important income stability.
This InfoShock
was written by Neil Shearing, Ph.D.
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