Due Diligence in Affiliate Marketing
ByPerforming due diligence should be the first thing that you do before joining and affiliate program, especially membership styles, before investing time or money. Let’s face it time is money and even a free program can rob you of your irreclaimable time and effort that could be better devoted to other areas.
I have personally lost thousands in the autosurf debacle because I just followed the heard like a sheeple. Now with the new launch of the Pay Per Play affiliate program it reinforces the fact that people need to perform due diligence. There are almost two hundred people who have lost money and time with voice2page in their prior affiliate debacle and it looks like the companies intention is to continue to deceive people by trying to finally launch NetAudioAds.
Through the process of the last few days watching all of the activity with this new launch and due to the fact that I have lost money with voice2page and am owed substantial commissions from them I have decided to start a new site to help others in their due diligence in all areas of Internet Marketing.
The new site is Internet Marketing Scam Alert and I will be featuring new products and affiliate programs that hit the IM world as they become available. I will also seek out other to help with this undertaking. If you wish to contribute to the project please contact me by leaving a comment here or through www.imscamalert.com
5 Comments
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Paul – You refer to 200 people who lost money in a past effort under the previous attempt at audio advertising. Do you realize how many have currently signed on now? This is going to take the net by storm this time around. Since it doesn’t cost you a single dime to get in on the ‘new’ ground floor as a core member, you really don’t have anything to lose. The monetary rewards could be fantastic if this takes off as expected. They are even talking about Amber Alerts and weather warnings (geographical) being played which consumers would welcome. This is no time to sit on your hands – at least get signed up! Affiliate Link Removed
January 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Hi,
I am a newbie to internet marketing, but will be starting a site somewhat like yours in the sense of providing internet marketing research for those who are like myself and are trying to tie all of the ends together, whie avoiding scams. I’d like to assist wih the project in that we could do as your doing and share our experience. I’m new, but definitely decided to perform some due diligene, which is how I discovered your site. I’ve spent the last two months trying to learn as much as I could about internet marketing and have finally reached the point where I can start to work on the development of my own site, which I hope to launch in the next 30-60 days. While marketing my site, it would make sense to work in conjunction on something like this.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Paul,
I see an earlier post from January 2008 using the PPP Blogger name but I acquired that URL several months after that so I am not the same PPP Blogger. I did, however sign up as a Publisher back in January and waited patiently for the March 1st launch (second attempt). What has happened since then is nothing to write home about.
Once Voice2Page got out of beta and had the BPA audit in their hands, they soon discovered that the advertisers they claimed to have were nowhere to be found. Now they are once again asking the Publishers to become Agents and hit the bricks to try to sell ads. That is even AFTER they signed up members to be Agents and proceeded to ignore them, concentrating on the big advertising fish.
Long story short, they have no advertisers as promoted, they DO NOT pay for EVERY website visitor as (still) promoted on their latest website, and they have failed to pay past due commissions. Larry Host posted on the forum on 8/24/08 that they would be sending out checks in ’several days’ but that was a month ago. David Jones has recently been posting on the forum and more less admitted that whatever money they are making from the small amount of ads that are running, is going towards keeping the ‘dream’ alive. What a joke this outfit is. They should stick to designing software and leave the business of running a business up to someone who knows how to create a ‘business plan’. If I were an advertiser I would NEVER give them money upfront for fear that I may never see my ads ran and would never get a refund. This ship is going down! BEWARE!!!
September 24th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Looking back, that MUST have been me posting here on Jan. 22nd since I actually acquired the URL the day before. When I read the Amber Alert remark in the comment, I began to realize that I was excited about that feature at the time since I am a regular contributor to Amber Alert.
My, how things change over time once the true picture of NetAudioAds begins to get clearer. My feelings about this company have done a complete 180* and I now oppose the program since they have lied so many times and made so many promises that were never kept. Skip this losing venture!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:39 am
‘This will take the net by storm’ how many times have I read that! I too signed up in January, put the code on all my pages and waited. Nothing. This didn’t work, that didn’t work, bear with us, they said, we’re getting it together, don’t listen to the negativity, audit audit audit. I’ve now removed the code and washed my hands. Larry Page and Charles Heflin will be names I remember, and anything with them attached will not be touched even by the proverbial bargepole.
I gave them more than a fair crack of the whip, I knew I was being too patient and would most likely regret it, but I thought I’d give them more space to show what they could do. Nothing but promises and hype is the answer.