I’m considering writing a series of articles where I try out YouTube videos and apply their affiliate marketing strategies.
Would you like me to proceed with that?
Today, I visited YouTube and searched for affiliate marketing. One particular video caught my attention right away.
The Truth Behind Affiliate Marketing Courses
First… I don’t agree with the title.
There are legitimate affiliate marketing courses. Many of them. I more or less figured it out on my own, but I’ve since purchased great courses that have taught me a lot.
I primarily create my own products, but I enjoy promoting tools and courses that I have personally enjoyed. And I believe I’m doing a favor for my subscribers by doing so.
If my subscribers don’t hear from me about a particular product that they know I could promote, then it’s probably because that product is not good!
It could also be because I was busy promoting one of my own products, haha. Long-time subscribers know this and always ask me, “Is this any good?”
If it is, I’ll let them know (and give them my affiliate link, why not?). If it isn’t, I’ll tell them the truth.
Often, I have to say, No, there’s a reason why I didn’t promote that one.
I’ve also received messages from many people who bought useless products and then regretted their purchases. My reply is always: Why didn’t you ask me?
After that, they do. Anyway, enough of the bragging.
This video still impressed me because they aren’t talking about courses in general, but rather one specific course.
Pay $7 and Make Thousands
Except…
After you’ve paid the $7, you need to pay another $2,500 and do sketchy things.
They tell their students to make money in only one way: sell this course to others.
Sounds enticing, right? You pay $7. You pay $2,500. And then you convince the next fool to pay $7 and hope they’ll upgrade.
Except…
It will make you feel really bad (unless you’re a psychopath and don’t care).
Make Thousands on TikTok
I’ve seen two courses operate in that manner.
Both seemed very tempting and potentially profitable. They had attractive young women talking about how they made $10,000 in their first month, despite never earning a penny before.
Oh yeah… so buy the course. And then sell it to the next unsuspecting fool.
But no, there are better and honest ways to be an affiliate.
But I’ll talk about that in another article, because it’s my day off. I just wanted to share.
