This is a new low…
I just came back from the Affiliate Summit in Boston. The show floor was full of merchants looking for affiliates, and networks looking for both publishers and affiliates.
At one point during the day, a pretty young lady approached me, said “Hi”, and put a flyer into my goodie bag as she asked me to take a look at it.
“Sure”. And she walked away.
When I got home I was going through the bag and found the flyer she had given me.
It was for an affiliate program I’m not going to mention.
What is so bad about it?
It’s a dating service for married people. Their slogan is, and I’m not making this up, “Thou shall make money from adultery.”
Now I suppose there is a market for this. And it pays very well at $249/sale. But I’ll be damn if I’m going to promote the concept of adultery.
How many marriages does this thing wreck? Who would put a giant “Blackmail Me” bulls eye on their head by joining this?
How much pain and anguish are created for the sake of a commission. Talk about blood money!
Who would mail their list promoting something with such a low morality quotient?
Disgusting. And I just had to vent about it.
Do YOU have any ideas on this? Please comment.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Hi Jeff, I am here by way of your Stompernet bonus but wanted to extend kudos for this post.
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:29 am
So glad you spoke out. Like you, I find the heartlessness incredible and depressing. One knows this kind of thing goes on, but when it tries shamelessly to become mainstream, it’s time for some speaking out.
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:46 pm
dear Jeff:
Wow thanks Buddy for being so straight with this kind of rubbish no wonder she just poked it into the bag she never had face enough to talk about it. so nice to catch up again after a couple of years i’m not doing much on line, but trying to follow the Kickstart.com program that Tony Sheperd and Sara Brown have put together about learning step by step marketing on line.
its good its east to follow for a still newbie like me, so i may make if can keep going.
Anyway great articles you put out Jeff really appreciate them all:
Regards Garry Woods.
July 25th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Hi Jeff – I wonder if the woman was my ex-wife. No it couldnt be since she had no interest in marketing anything which became a passion with me over the years. It always seemed to me to be a fun, sparetime activity. Hope it becomes profitable also in the future, as I look forward to retirement in the years ahead. You say she was a prety young lady and from Boston – my neck of the woods. Mail her flyer to me, and I will explain to her the error of her ways. I am always looking for recruits with potential.