I received this reply from what I later discovered was a leftist gentleman:
"Do you think Amazon is evil? I think many local stores are closing because of their 'success' in the free market.
"Perhaps the 'free market' is evil as well. It serves to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few. That's evil.
"Please take me off your mailing list if you want me to serve Amazon."
Now remember, I never said a thing about wanting anyone to "serve Amazon."
Many businesses have gotten a new lease on life thanks to getting access to Amazon's worldwide market. But as for stores closing, well, why is that bad? Is the present array of retail stores sacrosanct? That seems like an arbitrary judgment.
No matter what the retail innovation -- whether the introduction of the department store, or the Sears catalogue, or the traveling salesman -- there's always been someone calling it evil and/or trying to get it banned. Amazon is no different in this regard.
(By the way, I told the guy that I was dropping him from my mailing list anyway, since I don't need second-grade-level moral lectures.)
But to heck with Amazon, where you'll earn 8% commissions if you're really good.
I want way more than that, like 50% to 90%.
Last week I interviewed Gerry Cramer, the single most successful affiliate marketer in the entire world. His results are astonishing (he's the number-one affiliate on Clickbank, for example, which means he earns multiple seven figures per year).
But his students' results are no less impressive: plenty of them, too, have skyrocketed to the top ten on Clickbank, under Gerry's direction.
Sure beats digging ditches.
My Amazon whiner will never accomplish anything, I assure you. His website looks like something created with Geocities in 1997.
You, on the other hand, will join me for my workshop with Gerry, who will introduce you to a world you'll be kicking yourself for not knowing about sooner.
Had I known about affiliate marketing in 2010, I'd be writing to you from my own private island right now. That's the truth.
Better late than never.