I’ll never forget my early days of setting up my first website and branching out into affiliate marketing…. this was in 2007, when most programmes where you could work from home and earn money online on writing sites were US-based – and not open to residents of other countries.
The main reason for this was cross-border payments and Paypal not widely used. Most companies would send a USD check – to residents of the US only.
As I was in the UK, I was letting people know about various websites they could find ways to earn money online – and in one short post I suggested Associated Content.
These posts would contain an affiliate link and I hoped that US readers might sign up and I might end up getting an affiliate payment at some point.
Well, the post hadn’t been on my website more than a couple of weeks before I received the most horrendous, ranting, wild email from some furiously mad UK resident who was incandescent with rage that he’d looked and it was for US residents only. Now,
I’d not said about restrictions, I was simply pointing interested people towards sites they might try/investigate.
It really put the wind up me! I can still remember it to this day …. he was FURIOUS!!! I mean, you have to laugh really, it wasn’t a big deal. No money had changed hands. He’d probably wasted 10 minutes of his life…. and a further 20 minutes to email me… but it did make me scared of reader backlash!
I was reminded of this incident when another writer here on DailyTwoCents said they were considering writing reviews for cash …. and there’s no way I’d do that as the memory of that horrible email haunts me to this day!
It really put the wind up me! I can still remember it to this day …. he was FURIOUS!!! I mean, you have to laugh really, it wasn’t a big deal. No money had changed hands. He’d probably wasted 10 minutes of his life…. and a further 20 minutes to email me… but it did make me scared of reader backlash!
I was reminded of this incident when another writer here on DailyTwoCents said they were considering writing reviews for cash …. and there’s no way I’d do that as the memory of that horrible email haunts me to this day!
http://dailytwocents.com/affiliate-marketing-be-careful-youre-recommending/
