Just before I go, has anybody else been watching the Top Affiliate Challenge? I’ve just been watching episode 3 and to be honest it left me disappointed….not in the program itself but in the whole affiliate marketing scene.
On that show there are 3 teams of 4 people, each led by a top internet marketer. The challenge is to make as much money as possible each day through affiliate marketing. Now I thought they’d be starting of with nothing and then building slowly day by day. I was tuning in to learn. Turns out that they have been allowed to fully utilise there existing resources as well as having special help via some of the ad networks. Keeping in mind that as well as the gurus some of the contestants claim to be some of the leading lights in affiliate marketing (or full of shit braggers maybe) I was amazed to see that so far the top 24 hour profit is only $780, the next best being $240!! WTF! Some of these guys claim to be making thousands a day on their own, in teams of 4+guru and taking advantage of their own mailing lists and other “traffic drivers” does nobody else find that appalling? With all the bragging of driving millions of visitors a day I was expecting to see several thousand dollars a day at least?
In order to get quick results all the teams seem to be relying heavily on pay-per-click through networks like FaceBook and Adwords. Some have even resorted to black mail in order to show any profit, not to mention begging for capital. Never in a million years would I claim to be an expert in this type of marketing and I would never claim it was easy. Look I’m crap at it, I admit it and that’s why I’d never even try for the show. Looks like maybe the program has found a few people out. So whilst I’ve spent many months feeling like a failure over not rolling out a series of successful PPC affiliate campaigns it turns out all along that it’s just not that easy. I know a couple of my regular readers feel the same and have also wasted time and money on this “easy peasy” make money method. So to those people out there who insist on pushing the latest hot PPC Affiliate E-Book whilst bragging about making $50,000 a day I say this, shove it up your ass! It’s either 1. Not that easy or 2. The contestants on the Top Affiliate Challenge are crap. What do you think?
9 Responses to “Top Affiliate Challenge Exposes A Lot Of “Top Affiliates””
Paul B
July 5, 2008
Cool, so that’s a little snippet that Shoe’s team have a great day 3 then!
I’ve seen that Garry Conn has had a go at poeple who are having a go at the TAC, he raises some quite fair points, especially about calling out the people doing the calling out (whoaaa this could go on and on). Anyhoo, if anyone wants to doubt my credentials please feel free, my online earnings provide me and my family with a very nice income so I couldn’t give a toss, cheers.
As far as the TAC goes as I’ve stated in Thor’s blog I’m actually quite enjoying the program as a whole. Sure it’s a bit over dramatic for what internet marketing really is but at the end of the day it’s supposed to be reality TV. My major gripe is that SO FAR none of these big players have made any real money. Anyway that’s all I’ve got for now, must pack.
|Binary Ant
July 12, 2008
Good post Paul. I’m not following that affiliate challenge in spite of all the expectation created around it on JohnChow’s, Shoemoney’s, etc… But if all that you told about is true, yes I think that $780 in the best day is quite far from the earnings they assure they get every month.
But also there is the possibility that they are not doing their best. As usual they don’t reveal the secret of affiliate marketing, so it is more of the same stuff…is it worth to see again the same things?
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|Kevin L
July 17, 2008
The show gets better, keep watching.
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