Today’s tip is kind of an odd one but it is one that I’ve given a lot of thought to after seeing what’s been going on the last few years online. I don’t make these decisions lightly either. But it’s become painfully obvious to me that the best tip I could give you right now is this.

Let’s kill all the Internet marketers.

Okay, seriously (no, we’re not going to kill anybody. I’d never survive in jail) let’s take a look at the problem and why something really needs to be done before this whole industry gets such a black eye, internally and externally, that there will be no recovering from it.

Let’s take externally first because it is the most obvious problem. Too many Internet marketers are for nothing more than the almighty dollar and they’ll do anything to get it. To that end, they’ll put up grossly exaggerated sales pages, create products that have no value, trick people into continuity programs and do a host of other shady things that I wouldn’t pull on my worst enemy, let alone a customer.

This one area alone is enough to sink the whole profession. If you think we don’t have a bad reputation, why is it that the FTC finally stepped in and said “ENOUGH” to the tune of clamping down on affiliates and merchants alike? This action didn’t just come out of thin air. We screwed the pooch big time and now SOMEBODY has got to clean up the mess.

But the problem doesn’t just end with how we treat customers. How we treat each other is just as bad. Think I’m kidding? And no, I’m not talking about healthy competition. There is nothing wrong with that. If John Doe has a better product than you at a better price, he deserves to sell it and you deserve to go out of business. But this business of cookie stuffing (you know what I’m talking about) where honest affiliates are getting cheated out of commissions has got to stop. Will it? Not likely.

That’s why I say, in jest, that we need to kill all the Internet marketers. They’re giving IM a very bad name. Eventually, nobody will trust us and we won’t trust each other. As far as a real solution to the problem (no, we’re not killing anybody…I’ve already been over that) I don’t have one other than this…How about just acting like a responsible person and doing the right thing?

Neh…never happen.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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