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affiliate Two Ways To Deal With Affiliate phobes | Network Marketing Internet BusinessHave you come across any affiliate-phobes in your network marketing Internet business experience?

What is an affiliate -phobe?

Of course I’m referring to those individuals who don’t want any affiliate offers coming their way and who will do anything not to have you earn a commission from the sale of a product or service  you may be promoting.


Why do affiliate-phobes exist?

It may be that they don’t understand how affiliate marketing works. The fact of the matter is this is how we earn a living. It’s no different to you going into a store to buy some jeans. On top their wage earned, the store usually pays the sales assistant a commission  for facilitating each sale.

Secondly in my opinion these can also be people with scarcity consciousness issues.  They don’t want  to give to others because they perceive that they are losing out in some way. They don’t really want to part with any of their money because they don’t yet understand that there is more then enough money to go around and  that they just haven’t figured out how to access it yet.

If you are hoping to be an Internet marketer yourself and this describes your behavior then you have an even more serious problem on your hands. Until you learn to give to others how can you expect others to give to you? It just won’t happen so rather give it up now, you’re wasting your time.


Two ways to deal with affiliate-phobes

The fact of the matter is you may not even be aware that you have come across anybody like this because they may be so adamant that you don’t receive a few cents commission, that they edit your affiliate link or even find another computer to use if they suspect that theirs may be linked to you via their computer’s IP address. Sad !

The first way is to educate people so that they understand how affiliate sales works. The FTC has helped us in part by stating that we must inform others that when they may make a purchase we could earn a commission from the transaction.

I suggest you add an explanation to this so that they understand THEY are not paying us a commission. In fact it is the product or service provider who does, so whether they decide to use our links or not, there is no difference in price. All that is different is that the provider will earn the full price rather than giving a proportion of that sale to the person who represented it.

The best way to do this is to have an Affiliate Disclosure link somewhere on your blog which explains this too. You can see mine at the bottom of this page.

The second way is to simply get rid of the annoyance.

This week I received an email from someone on my list threatening that if I ever sent him an affiliate offer he and everybody he knew on my list (?) would be history.

Let’s not pretend here. We are all in business to form relationships but with the objective of marketing to these same people on our lists.

This does not mean we spam them with affiliate offers or that they need to like or buy anything that we present to them. The have free will at all times.

Anybody who is on your list who does not expect to be marketed to at some point does not deserve to be getting any value from you so I suggest you simply unsubscribe them which is exactly what I did.

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