Dear Reader:
I am VERY sorry, please accept my apology. When I posted the contents of this article, which have now been removed, I did not realize they had been stolen from someone’s Membership Area. The offending material has been removed and I regret taking up your valuable time. Stay tuned, por favor.
Perry Marshall
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Perry Marshall has launched two revolutions in sales and marketing. In Pay-Per-Click advertising, he pioneered best practices and wrote the world's best selling book on Google advertising. And he's driven the 80/20 Principle deeper than any other author, creating a new movement in business.
He is referenced across the Internet and by Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, INC and Forbes Magazine.
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I appreciate integrity also so hats off Perry, BUT, this is OLD news so I am posting a link at my twitter which will clear the mystery up for inquiring minds,
(and it was not lifted from a private membership site to my knowledge.)
This is ’08 stuff btw so…..(but it matches with affiliates having served their purpose re: adwords etc.)
Cheers!
Hey Perry,
Any chance you can give us the gist of what it said? I was pretty excited to get that info. Or if not would you be able to tell us the place that we can get it from?
Thanks for all the great info.
Thank you, Mr. Marshall, I came here on a tweet from Mike Filsaime and you impressed the daylights out of me with your integrity. Good job. Respectfully and Appreciatively, Andy
Classy way to handle it, bro.
You get a pass on this one. I was really, really looking forward to hearing the big “G” has to say about affiliates and PPC.
No problemo senior Perry. How about a link to the forum, so we can read it? It sounded very interesting…
Thanks alot, Perry. I never “dreamed” you would do a thing like that as to “steal” someone else’s content.;-)
Since you’ve left me as well as every one else hanging with baited waiting for the inside scoop, you simply must at least tell me/us where you got it from.
This information is critical to me because I’m just starting out and need to know if I need to pull the plug before I invest any more of my time and money into this, i.e. affiliate marketing.
Peace and blessings,
Andrea
I will try to bring out some new information for you on this soon.
If you do affiliate marketing I suggest you do it with a physical product and preferably sell it using your website not somebody else’s. And avoid hot spot categories like weight loss, health stuff, and “make money doing X.”
Thanks Perry, You have just saved me a whole lot of work. I must say though, I have just started doing affiliate marketing as I thought it would be the best place to start my online career. This has just put the cat amoung the pigeons.
I am sory you had to delete the article. What is going on with facebook? I uindderstand no affiliates and you have to advertise a freebie. Anything else in the mix!
Too bad that it is not available. I would love to learn what is the inside scoop on this.
Yould you kinly tell me whose Membership site displayed the information you alluded to?
Perry, It seems to me that for the most part google is about providing a positive search experience. If they don’t do just that, the masses have other search options to migrate to.
On the other hand, if they are saying affiliates serve no useful purpose, that is the height of hypocrisy. Google is in effect doing the same thing that affiliates do by serving ads as a go between for the vendor.
Hmmm, maybe google is challenging us because we are the competition?
I read the post before it was removed.
The gist of the google position on affiliates was that affiliate marketers have fulfilled their purpose for google by showing the big money advertisers that search marketing is a viable method. Affiliates are now considered obsolete by google.
Now that the major business owners themselves are advertising on adwords and other search networks, the affiliate advertisers are redundant.
Obviously, this is a mistake on the part of google because the big money advertisers still solicits the services of affiliate advertising networks and pay them quite generously.
Hats off to Google, I’m glad they are cleaning up the trash out there. Have you ever read the fine print on some of the CPA offers out there. When I read some of that stuff, I think there ain’t no way I would do this and I’m certainly not going to advertise it. I think it boils down to ethics. I’d bet that you would find that of the ‘pissed off’ affiliates that got their accounts banned or slapped or whatever were making a lot of money on unethical, non-transparent offers with hidden ‘gotchas’ in the fine print. As an advertiser they are probably thinking they aren’t the ones with the unethical offer that takes advantage of people, however they are massively promoting that unethical offer. Enough ranting.