Hi Brad,

I see your point. Kyle and others have made it clear that the pathway to success is to master the flow of relevancy. This is easier said than done.

However, I am working hard in taking the necessary classes to master this skill. For SEO as well as for PPC strategies.

What alternate name would you suggest? My feeling.is the name marketing is what is degraded. When others hear you are involved in marketing, they may feel you are selling to them and create mental barriers.

Using affiliate links is the linchpin of our business. Hence I feel the term affiliate needs to be included. How about Affiliate Solutions? Or Affiliate Connections? Maybe even Affiliate Sales!

What do you think?

Cheers.

Edwin

I tend to agree with you, Brad! Good thoughts here!

Jeff

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this Brad. Although it is hard to point out which is real and which are not only because I feel that they are all saying the same thing.

Myra 💜

Hi, the Magic Brad.
You raise some very important points.
It is nice to hear from you again.

Paul from Canada.

Hello Brad

Thank you for this great blog post and for raising this important point. Unfortunately fake gurus have ruined things for us and made it so hard to succeed with affiliate marketing especially for beginners.

I have been at it for a while and have not made any money yet due to a lot of people thinking I'm a scammer or fake guru and not giving me a chance. I also struggle with traffic and lack of consistency has made things harder for me to. But I agree with what you have said in this blog post.

Despite my own challenges there are so many scammers and fake gurus out there that make things very hard for us honest people. It is also frustrates me that a lot of fake gurus have large cult like followings on YouTube and social media.

People follow them, waster hours, days and weeks on the strategies these gurus show but make no money and won't listen when honest people try to tell them the truth. I got hated on for telling the truth once and it led to the downfall of my YouTube channel which I ended up loosing but for a different reason.

It also annoys how much these gurus and marketers spam their links and make fake claims about how rich they are. Many of them make big money by making us poor. They will say anything to make money or get a commission and this angers the heck out of me.

There are even members on Wealthy Affiliate that have outdated content and don't care if they are misleading people or providing false information because they will say anything to get a commission. A WA member recently posted about this on his WA blog. You might be interested in Andre's post if you haven't seen it yet.

Here is the link Get your act together I think it is time affiliate marketing got a facelift but I'm unsure how this would work. I'd like to see things like this discussed more often and somehow see all the fake gurus loose and be stopped. It might never happen but I would love to see it happen though.

I have never been to an affiliate marketing summit but I would like to be able to go to one someday to check it out. All the fake gurus and scammers are doing a big disservice to the make money online industry and to the affiliate marketing industry. They need to be stopped and the truth needs to be told more often.

Thank you again for this great blog post and for raising this important point. I fully agree with what you said in this blog post and I fully support you. I look forward to reading more of your blog posts. All the best to your success.

Regards

Timothy