Hello Bob,

I think that's a very valid point and one I struggled back and forth with. Are affiliates going to want to get involved when the program isn't run through clickbank (because they'll be afriad they won't get paid)?

I've been doing my best to ask around and get some feedback on this and heard mixed reviews.

I've found that some people in the IM crowd (the market I'm in) don't like to promote clickbank products due to affiliate commission theft, it's so easy to replace the affiliate ID with your own. So even though the check's going to come, they know it will be a smaller check just because it's run through clickbank and the buyers will put in their own ID to get a discount.

So it's really a problem either way. My title was a little dramatic, because I wanted to get the post read, but really, it is a big decision. Because like you said, I don't want to be one of the one's who drop out of the marketplace.

For me, I'm willing to put in the work to promote my own product, it's in SEO. Obviously, if I feel good putting out a course on SEO, I'm good enough at it that I can get my own traffic to generate a fair number of sales a month and make it worth my time, but of course affiliates will make a big difference in what I end up earning and how far my product reaches in the marketplace.

Hopefully I'll learn some things through all this and be able to come back here and share.

Thanks,

Lisa