Clickbank And Morality...

[Zwielicht]

Diet products they have are good. Panic Away is top notch IMO.

Paleo products are also good.

The he diabetes stuff looks terrible m.

I don't see how that was relevant to my post, so here's a gif of a cat jumping into snow.

 

[liquidglass]

If you're worried about the morality, which I get. Ask for a copy, look over it, and if it's something you think could be worthwhile to someone else, promote it. If you don't think it works or isn't worth the money then don't. Simple.

Your list will thank you for being such a diligent expert and they'll buy from you more often. You can't sell something you don't believe in, so don't. No struggle there.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

While I give you a kudos point for questioning moral issues...I must say that hustling some
clickbank offers seems like the least of the worlds concerns. Every single second of our life
we are being inundated with offers that we don't need.

Example: Buying a new sofa? Save money by buying our sofa with a coupon.

^ That statement although very common is completely false. I may see a cost reduction, however in
order to save actual money I could just keep my old sofa. Either way I am spending money.

Small example of how the world is basically set up for marketing.

-RK

 

[SocialMediaManager]

You cant Define "Need" and "Morality" Everybody will differ on definition of these
My Definition is if you know that Product is Fake but you are still selling it then you are doing wrong

 

[Zwielicht]

You cant Define "Need" and "Morality" Everybody will differ on definition of these
My Definition is if you know that Product is Fake but you are still selling it then you are doing wrong

And I define it as if you're trying to sell a low-quality product to desperate people (cancer patients or job seekers), then you should refrain from promoting the product unless those desperate people are child rapists, in which case you should scam them as much as you want.

 

[generalrahman]

The Diabetes products should be banned. People's lives are at stake with those.

 

[stackitup]

Don't take it the wrong way I'm not saying everything on CB is trash. To be honest I don't use CB much because I think there is easier/better ways to make money. I know I would never buy any of the informational products or medical products from CB so asking myself if I'd buy the product is irrelevant, plus you aren't always promoting a product that you'd need (ex. selling diabetes diet even if I don't have diabetes). I guess I find it amazing that there are people who are buying those products on a large scale. It's funny you mention "panic away" I took a close look at some of the panic/anxiety products because I have OCD and am somewhat entrenched in the online communities in that space. All of those are great examples of what shouldn't be on CB. Seriously, I looked at one that would cost 40 bucks that had 20 pages telling you to breathe, o thank you for that I totally forgot! Telling people this E-Book will cure your anxiety is garbage. In fact I'd say the psychological programs are even more harmful because it's telling people you don't need to see a doctor or get actual help. There's some decent software and some membership sites and those kind of things which are great and have merit on CB. It doesn't bother me that people are promoting trash offers because there will always be scammers around. The thing that gets me is CB allowing stupid programs especially because CB has had so much positive press and it's so out in the open. IDK maybe I'm on the soapbox a bit but the deeper you look into it the worse it seems. Meh, just one guys opinion.

 

[slybear]

I think you need to make a distinction between the egregious crap -- Cure Diabetes -- and the less dangerous -- Stop Your Cat From Peeing on the Carpet. No matter how you proceed I applaud your willingness to think. Most do not want to think about such issues at all.

 

[stackitup]

I do make the distinction my tirade is targeted on the medical products. I didn't intend to give the impression that all informational products were one in the same.

 

[Archemike]

I have always had the mindset that dumb people buy dumb things and they might as well buy them from me. However, do any of the clickbank products bother you? I like to promote products in the health niche that focus on a specific illness or condition because I can get cheap PPC clicks with low competition. Some of these products promise ridiculous things(anxiety product says it cures 98% of people, a diet book that says it cures cancer, diabetes cures, etc.) I'm starting to feel like a snake oil salesman. I try to only promote legitimate/plausible products but that doesn't always work out. Even now the highest gravity product is a diabetes cure. How do you guys handle these questionable products? Do you promote them or try to stay away? Initially it didn't bother me and I focused on my bottom line but recently I've been thinking about it more and questioning my responsibility.

Mike

You could say the same for McDonalds... Or a number of other companies that overcharge on false pretenses... Frankly most more common companies quality differs from as it appears... I find more immorality in agencies that say they do seo for 2k and get no backlinks....

 

[Zwielicht]

You could say the same for McDonalds... Or a number of other companies that overcharge on false pretenses... Frankly most more common companies quality differs from as it appears... I find more immorality in agencies that say they do seo for 2k and get no backlinks....

I hate it when I see companies like that getting more business than me. I lost a client for a charity web design project I did a while back to a freelancer who supposedly had "more credentials" than me, and by more credentials, she had a college degree in design. My former charity client had this trashy college student judge the charity website I made for her so that she could display her portfolio and the college student said, "Oh no, honey! That website needs a lot of work done, it just won't do! Look, I've designed websites for many of my clients in the past, maybe I can set you up with something much better than... that". The college student freelancer charged my former charity client around $250 for so that she could spend 1 hour setting up a tacky $40 Wordpress template.

Work from me:
Everything was free.
Set up her domain name.
Set up a personalised website.
Photoshopped over 40 images to display on her website.
Search engine optimised her website to appear in local results.
Spent over 3 months collaborating on the website with the charity client.

Work from the college student:
Cost $250 to initially set up
Set up a $40 Wordpress template in an hour.
Reused the content I created for the charity client (text and photos).


The only reason I was so livid about the situation was because she told me it wasn't the quality of work she had a problem with (she even told me she loved the old website), it was the fact that the college student had a degree in design and she felt she could get an even better website from her (did I mention I did all the work for free?). Not only that, the charity client was also working with the college student and me simultaneously so that she could get the free content from me and the website from the college student.

But this all happened a long time ago, so it doesn't matter since I have a registered business now with contracts for large projects to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Anyway, when I think of people overcharging and not delivering any real work, I think of this story each time.

 

[vikramkhan]

It's funny you mention "panic away" I took a close look at some of the panic/anxiety products because I have OCD and am somewhat entrenched in the online communities in that space. All of those are great examples of what shouldn't be on CB. Seriously, I looked at one that would cost 40 bucks that had 20 pages telling you to breathe, o thank you for that I totally forgot! Telling people this E-Book will cure your anxiety is garbage. In fact I'd say the psychological programs are even more harmful because it's telling people you don't need to see a doctor or get actual help.

I thought the Panic Away program was pretty good. We have a neighbor who was having anxiety attacks and we bought it for her and it helped a lot. It teaches CBT techniques for dealing with panic. My wife also used it to deal with her anxiety attacks.

There are some good programs on ClickBank. You just have to dig around and buy them and see what's up.

 

[FinoACasa]

Just dont target desperate people! Don't sell miracles to heal cancer or diabetes, let them be healed by MDs. You can sell diet programs or stuff like that, people choses to try it out if they trust it, it's not our businnes. (mmmh yes it is )

 

[funkybunker]

Don't mean to resurrect a week-dead thread but I feel like adding some notes.

Someone mentioned McDonalds. Why not Coca Cola? Or every single product filled with Trans Fat in the market that's allowed by the FDA? Morals don't exist in most the population alongside intelligence, and it's these stupid people that feed the economy. People do stupid shit and successful businesses know that.

Don't sell to desperate people? Sweetheart...this is marketing. We sell dreams. You will sell to 99 emotional buyers before you sell to 1 logical buyer.
/ logical statements

 

[MudassirMustafa]

The best way to promote health products is to write reviews and when you write reviews, you have everything in your hand. For example, you can write that the claim which is made by this product say "cure cancer" is clearly a sales hype furthermore reassure them with CB refund policy if they are not satisfied!

 

[MDSOperandi]

I look at a product as if I would but it myself - if I would buy it then that means other people would buy it as well. I did see (I'm not sure if it was on ClickBank) but a product that promoted "Anorexia" as a way to lose weight - seriously! That and Cancer cures are the only products that I would have an issue promoting