How ironic to see you here. lol Feel free to shoot me an email since we’re probably being targeted by the same advertisers.

It’s so funny – I found your site while researching an advertiser I suspected to be a scam. Your site came up in the top results of a Google search I did for their URL.

These type of scams are really prevalent these days, and people contact me all the time to advertise them on WAHM. The comprehensive list you have on here is really helpful for me, so I can quickly nail these guys when they come across my radar. They change all the time, so I don’t always know what I’m dealing with, sometimes too late.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Don’t ever feel dumb in situations like this. Scammers are very good at making things sound legitimate. But as long as you do your research and go with your gut you can avoid a lot of this crap. Hopefully you’ve visited my scam page: http://www.workathomenoscams.com/scams

There is a wealth of information there in the video, articles and comments. I’m confident if you read through all that material, you’re very unlikely to fall for any of this stuff. Take care and thanks for chiming in.

Then I Googled the website with only 1 result, and the main page is about that Google cash thing. Not to mention the comments at the bottom, it says “Comments Closed Due To Spam (back soon)” how convenient. So they make you read the fake comments thinking it’s real people and that it actually worked, and you are unable to post any of your own.

I feel pretty dumb right now.

One, you should focus on a passion you have. Most affiliates make the mistake of just trying to push whatever makes them the most money even if they know nothing about the subject matter. That’s like me trying to convince someone to allow me to perform brain surgery on them and the extent of my experience with medicine is using band aids to stop paper cuts. People will be able to tell from a mile away I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. So why would they take action on any of my medical advice?

Affiliate marketing isn’t about lying to people if you were trained by the right people. Sounds like you may have bought or read courses from people that don’t care about providing value but are more concerned about a quick buck. If you read this blog there are number of articles where I’m referring people to companies that are legitimate, have made me money and can make them money. I don’t lie to people about these companies. I tell them both the good and negative about a given company and then let them decide if it’s something they want to sign up for. If they do, that’s great we both make money. If not that’s fine too because maybe I brought to light something that they may have not liked about the opportunity. But they’ll appreciate my honesty and possibly be more inclined to try another company I introduce to them. You can see an example of this in my recent article:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/07/21/is-clixsense-com-a-scam/

That’s how affiliate marketing should work when you were trained properly. You don’t need to lie and use tricks. You just need to provide people with solutions that they asked for & not push things they have no interest in. People that come here to this site are looking for legit work at home. So they don’t mind that I’m getting paid to refer them to legit opportunities. Why? Because they’re getting what they came here for which was honest information and leads on ways to make money at home. So that’s what you should be doing when you’re involved in affiliate marketing. Getting in front of people to introduce them to affiliate products, service or information your promoting is really the difficult part but again training is key in that respect. Convincing people to take action isn’t as hard when you just apply good old common sense and be honest. Treat people how you would want to be treated in a given situation and trust me they will respond.

Next, you should also actually believe in the stuff you’re promoting. I make it habit not to attach my personal recommendations to any company unless I’ve tried it myself and made money. Or I’ve done my research and determined the company is legitimate. Too often affiliates, just push anything what makes them the most amount of money while not giving any thought to the value or harm the product may be doing to their users. When you do that, people won’t trust you again. People continue to sign up for programs I recommend because I’ve proven to them time and time again, I have their best interest at heart and chances are they will make money or avoid scams following my advice. So I have a stream of loyal followers that are open to my suggestions. That will bring me long term money. Affiliates that do it the opposite way may make fast money but long term they’ll constantly need to change their tricks and promotion to stay sustainable and find new “suckers” to mislead. That’s not a way to build a business. It’s a hustle and we all knows that hustles don’t last.

So there is a proper way of going about this. You just need to be taught by the right people. If you’ve been on my blog long enough you already know that I think Wealthy Affiliate are the right people to lead you in the right direction:
http://www.gowealthyaffiliate.com

So I hope this helps. Affiliate marketing is a great career if you do it right. It’s not easy but when you learn the skills it becomes a lot easier than going it alone. Focus is definitely required and an unwavering discipline to succeed in the face of adversity. If you don’t have those things, you will fail even with the best of training. So definitely give that a thought. This isn’t for everyone.