Hidden Dangers of Promoting Affiliate Products

 Promoting affiliate products is one of the great ways to get your foot in the door, to building your online business and there are a lot of people out their earning a handsome amount from being an affiliate. The best part of it is you don't need to invest your own time, money and energy, in creating a product from start to finish.

If you are a smart marketer, you're more than likely to promote affiliate products to people on your list. Especially those, whom you have identified, are suitable for the products you plan to promote. However there are 3 hidden dangers of promoting affiliate products. If you don't know them it could hit your bottom line, at worse destroying your online business.

Let's get started:

1 - Providing free leads to product sellers

Smart product creators, know there are certain number of individuals will visit a sales page and won't buy. In order to cater for them, they would offer a lead magnet so that they can get the potential customers details and promote the product to them. Which is great, only, if you get commission on the sale. However if they are unscrupulous, Yanlemon could promote their product using their own affiliate link or even promote other affiliate products, whereby you end up with zero commission.

To shield yourself from this, you can check if the product creator has a lead magnet, join the list and see what happens when you join the list.

2 - Product creator going bust

If a product creator goes bust, no matter how good you have been generating sales for their product, one thing you can be pretty sure of, is that you're more than likely going zero commission.

When you are going to be an affiliate for someone, you should be clear in your mind as to whether you are comfortable working with them. Research the product and product creator, get to know them. Try to find out what their previous history was with other affiliates.

3 - Damage to your reputation

Product creators can damage your reputation, through the guilt of association, especially if:

The Product doesn't deliver what the sales page promises

The product is of pro quality

Poor after sales customer service

Before you promote a product you should see and use the product, you can ask the product seller for a review copy or a sample. However bear in mind that the product seller isn't obligated to provide you with a review copy or sample.