But if you thinking of coming to WikiPedia to ptomote your business, might as well not come…

Igor Berger
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Igor The Troll

That I agree with. You also have to consider the target audience. For you or merchants, the target audience is more affiliates, other people in this industry. For an affiliate such as myself, my target audience are online shoppers. So that’s where I’m going to be spending the bulk of my time on with websites. Unless you’re an affiliate with one of those how to make money online type of sites whose audience would be other affiliates or those just starting out.

As far as affilpedia, I wouldn’t have expected a lot of help with that, especially from affiliates. It’s not good for their business but good for others.

I didn’t expect affiliates to necessarily get involved – more so from affiliate managers.

I figured it would serve in a similar way to them having a presence in forums, blog comments, etc. – branding that they are active in the industry.

I make time for it.”

Yes, but that’s good for your business/Affiliate Summit, books etc. That’s part of it.

As far as affilpedia, I wouldn’t have expected a lot of help with that, especially from affiliates. It’s not good for their business but good for others.

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But it was my first comment so this error is bs. Jim Kukral is not managing ReveNews anymore. I need to check who is able to take a look at that. At least the comment was not lost when I pressed the back button. I think it has to do with somebody else posting a comment at the same time and using the same CAPTCHA code you got as well. Shawns comment was not there when I wrote my comment, but showed up when I hit the back button, copied my comment into notepad and refreshed the screen. Nasty bug.

Peter: puh, so I should not worry hehe

Jonathan: I am not talking about an affiliate marketing training program, but education about the existence of affiliate marketing, what it is and how it works.

Everybody is busy and time is a matter of priorities. We never can do all that we want so as lower the priority of something gets the lower are the chances that we going to do it.

The affiliate marketing industry does not exist in a bubble and is connected to the rest of the world. I for my part have a problem with people either looking down on affiliate as it is some kind of a disease or don’t even know about it at all. Especially people that make decision that affects the industry for the good or the bad.

The #1 relationship in this business is merchant/affiliate. They’re usually too busy with business.

It’s all relative. I could easily say I’m too busy for a variety of things.

But I view the creation of content for the greater good as a form of networking.

I make time for it.

I think you won’t find a lot of affiliates doing that because they’re too busy working on their sites, making money. Growing their business. So a part of it might be the money, another part might be they just don’t have the time. Maybe some might feel, why would I want to help educate what might be future competition?

People do different things in this business. Some are 100% affiliate. Some are affiliate managers and have their own affiliate sites on the side. Maybe they’re a full time affiliate manager or oursourced project manager. Some make how to make money online blogs, so they make money with doing this type of thing. Some work at affiliate networks and CPA networks. Some make money blogging about the industry. Some with industry shows. All good.

The #1 relationship in this business is merchant/affiliate. They’re usually too busy with business.