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The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam (10)


08-13-2013 01:54 PM #1 gozee (Member)
The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam

Just saw this article over on Venturebeat:


08-13-2013 02:31 PM #2 keepitsimple (Member)

lmao what a horrible article, I love the comments though as they are 100% slamming this mensa candidate. He did zero work managing / restricting affiliate promotions and then cries when affiliates naturally gravitate to a method that is going to make them the most money. Who would have ever thought that humans would do whatever it is that makes them the most money...

only intelligent part of that article is in the comments.


08-13-2013 02:34 PM #3 godspeed (Member)

Obviously Ruslan Kogan was living(still is) under a rock and
have no idea how affiliate marketing works.


08-13-2013 02:57 PM #4 Mr Green (Administrator)

This cringe worthy.


08-13-2013 09:34 PM #5 brianb (Member)

This article could have been written in 1996. What a waste of life.


08-13-2013 09:50 PM #6 thetopham (Member)

no brand/no coupon in terms

problem solved


08-13-2013 11:11 PM #7 collinimedia (Member)

What a waste of 15 minutes of my life. Please rehire the marketing consultant and fire yourself


08-14-2013 12:02 AM #8 einspeare (Member)

Read the article. What a pile of nonsense.

If that was really true, all they would have to do is remove the coupon feature from the checkout. The people wouldn't go searching for a coupon and they would keep the all sales themselves.

Furthermore, (if I read it correctly) if he really looks at his Analytics account ten times a day, he would have noticed that with all the $200k more sales, there was only 2% more overall traffic. That would have raised the alarm immediately.

As I said, it's nonsense.


08-14-2013 02:22 AM #9 maynzie (Moderator)

Terrible lol


08-14-2013 07:08 PM #10 stackman (Administrator)

Haha i was expecting something about rebills etc.. not this crap. Mega fail for Venturebeat, they're a reputable site and should have better info than this


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