OTrap
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- Jul 12, 2008
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This might be the case, but JVs don't necessarily correlate inherently.
JVs (particularly email ad-swaps) are basically additional incentives to get bigger affiliates on board. For many of them, money and commission aren't an issue, but if you can add something additional to sweeten the pot, then you can get their interest.
There are actually a couple reasons.
(a) If it isn't near saturation, then he might think he can use it and make money, plus sell it and make more money.
(b) If he has a new angle on marketing, and this one becomes "yesterday's news" to him, he may sell it knowing that it still works, because he knows that the refund rate will be low.
(c) Building a list. The method he's pitching may currently work, and work well. But if it has a shelf life, he may trade it in for something that has yet to show a shelf life, such as email blast marketing, collecting potent leads through the site.
(d) The method works on a small enough scale that even though it's not worth their own time, it might be worth the time for newbies to do it (article marketing ebook, for example).
(e) The method has worked, but is starting to become less effective ... essentially that he sees the saturation writing on the wall.
Believe it or not, there ARE reasons why people would sell a very profitabe money-making method.
I guarantee it's already been done, and if they haven't shut the site down yet, it's because they've found the site compliant according to the letter of the law.
I know how this will sound, but among IMers, the biggest secret is that many of the IM niche is that some of the methods actually do work. Whether they work as well as advertised or not is up for debate on a case-by-case basis.
