Funny, I don't read a book or ebook thinking it holds all the answers to my
questions or is the magic goose from which I will get the golden egg. But, I
do think there are elements of truth in most of these materials, and like
Stephen said, I look for ebooks/book to pull together some of those bodies of
information.
I'm not sure about the witchhunt approach to cleaning up affiliate marketing
because it still boils down to one guy's opinion. So instead, I've taken a bunch
of those ebooks and put them up for free at the Affiliate Guild. You be the
judge ... not me. I think what works for one guy, might not work for another.
For that matter, it's very difficult for a way more experienced marketer to
subjectively judge materials for a newbie. I think it's really hard to go back to
where you once were. Probably would be more interesting to have the expert
evaluate to ebook and the newbie evaluate it ... I'll bet the differences in
opinion would be so vast that you'd have to view most of these ebooks
through new eyes.
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. There are good elements in
many of these materials. There's also a lot of hype, but there are also many
members of this forum who use hype or promote hyped up materials as well.
Start banning books ... it goes against values and liberties most of us hold
dear. Maybe next it will be your website that gets blacklisted next?!
Hard work alone does not guarantee success, if it did there would be many
more successful people in this world. It has to be coupled with knowledge
and an ability to impliment that knowledge. These ebooks are part of the
equation, even if out dated ... institutional memory is important because
most things in life are cyclical.
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