Comments on: Affiliate Ethics – Friends or Business?

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:28:40 +0000

Hey Nick,

Nice post. We briefly spoke about this topic and although we didn’t really ‘finish’ the topic, after reading the post and all the details of the situation, I don’t think there’s any doubt – tell your friend about the domain. Here’s the thing IMO, you called him a mate. If he’s a friend, someone you believe is a good person, do him the favor. That’s not to say you screw over someone who isn’t a friend, but that’s besides the point for this topic. You said you consider him a friend, and friends should take care of each other.

By: Unknown Webmaster

Unknown Webmaster — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:34:32 +0000

My first encounters in the business were as follows:
1. Guy who ran a huge spam campaign on forums (not due to ignorance).
2. Guy who evaded income tax on his (substantial) affiliate income, and turned out to be a somewhat shady character.
3. Guy who pumped me for information and proceeded to waste a lot of my time fx getting me to spend time introduce him to the AM of a room that he were already promoting (I still don’t understand why he did that).
4. Karim from RTR pointed me towards PAP.
5. Ca. 1 months later PAP imploded because of Cardspike.

I have had a lot of good people help me out and enjoy helping others, but I’m beginning to think that it maybe I should stop spending my time helping people that I haven’t seen help others.

By: hazo

hazo — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:30:03 +0000

Hey Roger,

Yeah this is why I want to get some input from people about what goes on behind the scenes so I can make a follow up post.

I tend to not get involved in much of the politics and when it comes to this particular industry I haven’t been F’ed over.

So while it may be easy for me to say “do nice things and nice things will happen to you” that can be hard to swallow if there are a lot of snakes around.

Nick

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:28:50 +0000

There are a lot of two faced people in online marketing. It’s a pretty dirty business. Me personally I’d prefer to be fair about things but it’s hard in this industry when it seems like a lot are out to screw you, fish you for information, or F you over.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:20:32 +0000

It’s a good question. My feelings pretty much match your own – what goes around comes around.

I’ve been given an awful lot of help and support from the affiliate community since I launched my first site and I’d feel slightly awkward buying up a domain just to try and sell it on to the same people who didn’t charge me a penny to tell me why my first site sucked.

I enjoy helping out where I can and have equally had people treat me the same way. I guess I just find that kind of friendship/support more valuable than a domain name.

Just my two cents though!