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Your Online Business-are You A Victim Of This Trap?

This article looks at how many affiliate marketers are being ripped off. There is a way to avoid being duped by this particular practice though..”.
In this article I will set out a vital part of your due diligence that you need to carry out before you decide to promote a particular product.

The products that I am talking about are Clickbank products which are obviously very popular with new entrants to online business.That is why it is critical for you to check out this scam before you send a lot of traffic to a program that is playing with loaded dice.

The Sting
The sharp practice to which I refer is simplicity itself. The vendor has an opt in form on his sales page. The visitor is persuaded to put his name and email in the opt in box and a lot of people do this to get the freebie and the traffic you are sending is targeted traffic which means they are warm already. The freebie can be a free report, free downloadable product, mp3 recording or whatever.

If the visitor that you have sent signs up then the vendor will send him the usual series of promotional email messages and attempt to snag the sale for himself by getting the prospect to pay by PayPal..the vendor's PayPal account.He does this by perhaps offering a physical version of the product rather than the Clickbank version..and Clickbank do not deal with physical products so at this stage you are out of the equation and the prospect will be credited with the sale by PayPal.

The first option is to pay a little extra and get the program by way of a CD or Video or DVD from the vendor. This though is a physical product which does not involve Clickbank and you will be cut out of your commission.

Why would the prospect go for this? Because the vendor will explain that it is a big file and if you have a bad internet connection it will take a long time, you will always have the DVD/Video/CD or whatever but you could lose the downloadable one if your computer files were lost of infected with a virus.

In summary do your due diligence before you sign up with a vendor and if you must sign up with a vendor who has an opt in form..test it. Sign up, follow the subsequent link through to order and see who is being credited with the sale.

By: John OToole

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