The Keen Marketer

It came to me in the middle of the night that all network marketing entrepreneurs should have affiliatitis.

So what is affiliatitis? First of all it is a term which I believe I made up.  At least I have not heard it or read it anywhere else on the web.

If you are marketing online,  you are surely an affiliate for someone else’s product.  That’s one of the most efficient ways of making extra income to subsidize your true up-front network marketing business.

You at least don’t have to spend hours producing a product that people will like because all the work has been done for you and all you do is promote it, sell it, make some money and truly practice leveraging.

However, there are some internet users that, when they see the URL in the search bar as being an affiliate URL, will circumvent the affiliate link and go directly to the site in question.

Once there, if they buy, then the commission is paid to the owner rather than the affiliate.  Well, I must say that I really don’t agree with that practice.

If the owner of the product is allowing for affiliate sales in order to promote his product more widely, then the credit should go to the person who has given you the “headsup” on that product.

When circumventing the affiliate who introduced you to the product, you are in essence saying that all the work they did to even get you to look at the product, was of no value.

So affiliatitis should be a quality that every appreciative and honest network marketing or online marketing entrepreneur should possess.

We all need validation.