Comments on: Recession will hurt affiliate marketing too

By: Codrut Turcanu / Blogging for Money

Codrut Turcanu / Blogging for Money — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:39:13 +0000

Nah. you’re ok with “pessimistic” your opinion! But, did you read Rich Dad, Poor Dad books?

In a world of financial-collapses it’s smart to never put all your eggs into one basket, and at the same time think positive.

I like to turn negatives into positives, and always look for problems because I like to deliver the solution.

If there were no problems in this world, there were no jobs, no activities, no solutions, nothing!

So I see this world-wide (financial) “crisis” as a blessing — what do you say about that?

By: Musashi

Musashi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:50:33 +0000

If you think about it logically, sure, sounds reasonable that product sales *should* decline.

Funny thing is, with all of this “economic downturn”, all of my product sales have INCREASED dramatically over the past couple of months

By: WayneDog

WayneDog — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:35:39 +0000

I think your on the money Chad. Many people in the industry I know talk like the economy and current situation won’t effect them or affiliate marketers at all which I dissagree with. I think we have a huge advantage in being able to switch gears and promote just about any industry we please but we are kidding ourselves if we think we aren’t going to be effected at all.

Products sales will def feel the impact but so will lead generation eventually. Affiliates often forget that the leads we get paid for have to convert for the advertiser which means at some point the consumer has to open his wallet and take out his credit card. When consumers are more reluctant to do that it will trickle down and hurt lead quality which in turn will hurt even a pure lead generation affiliate marketer.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:22:48 +0000

More indications holidays will not be so good, 1st decline in 23 years http://www.cnbc.com/id/27676922

By: Mike Henry

Mike Henry — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:37:26 +0000

It will all depend on the type of offer. Right now, McDonalds is doing quiet well. Cheap offers aim at the middle class will still do ok.

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By: Mikael Rieck

Mikael Rieck — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:29:37 +0000

I’m pretty sure it will have some effect but overall I don’t think it’ll matter. Sure people might be travelling less but then they might be buying more tickets to movies instead. In depressions people often drink more alcohol and go out to movies (and similar things) more to “get away from the depression”.

So I think we’ll see a small shift in the purchasing patterns but I think the same amount of money will be spent.

Finally… never trust newspapers. They’re in the business of selling headlines. The “truth” has never been a part of their businessplan.

By: browie

browie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:32:51 +0000

I think we will not see the record numbers like we have the past few years over and over but you’re right there will still be buyers just not big buyers.