A couple people in the blogosphere, thought I was saying I agreed that Affiliate Marketing is dead! NO SORRY if the message I was trying to make wasn't clear.
I did not mean to imply I agree that affiliate marketing is DEAD. FAR FROM IT! I changed his subject line to "IS KILLING" (instead of already KILLED) to imply a warning that we need to be ever vigilant about cleaning our industry up. I agree with a couple of David's points as stated above.
Kieron made some other great points about Davids article and started out with
"What also saddened me was people like Lee and Linda agree with him, surely you don’t guys?" So I posted a long reply, trying to clarify the points I was making in my original post above.
Linda said:
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"Hi Kieron, sorry if it wasn’t clear but I don’t agree AT ALL that affiliate marketing is dying.
And I do agree with every one or your points too. We can agree on all that, being on the inside of the industry, knowing what WE know. But many people in the corporate world, some merchants and many traditional and SEO marketers think spammer, scammer, arbitrage, fraud - when they hear the word affiliate.
If we weren’t IN the biz and the only exposure we had to affiliate marketing is all the porn and RX spam and SEO and PPC black hat stuff we may not think so highly of our industry either. David’s views accurately reflect what many “outsiders” think of our industry. Hence his point “Sadly, the weakest link in the chain brings down everyone else.” is very true.
I’m the ever eternal optimist when it comes to our industry - so I will say again NO WAY do I think our industry is dying and didn’t mean for it to sound like I did.
What I was trying to say is I agreed with some of his points and tried to take them and turn them into a lesson or a warning that we need to stay vigilant about cleaning our industry up."
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