Because I didn’t sign up.
Why?
1. I don’t want to waste people’s time. If it turns out to be a great money maker, all of you will have had the chance to sign up, but elsewhere. There’ll be no multi-level marketing pimpin’ over here. Unless I decide to become Mary Kay rep, of course. Any cross-dressers out there? You know I have to put my own spin on things. It would be fun to build a large network of shemales and then go to one of the Mary Kay conferences as a super-duper team leader director person and earn a pink Cadillac while others explode with envy, splattering the walls with NouriShine Melon Sorbet lip gloss. A girl can dream, right? Oh wow, I digressed. Badly.
2. I don’t want my blog to look like everyone else’s. Those banners are everywhere! Doing what everyone else is doing takes me out of my comfort zone. Note to self: Delete the Text Link Ads banner that no one ever clicks on. The Adsense will stay, though. It’s like blogger crack.
3. What are the chances of seeing some real cash, anyway? Since DealDotCom hasn’t went live yet, and I’ve already seen it being pushed on at least five sites, how many people would actually sign up under me? And if they did, how many people would sign up under them? And if they did, for how long? The shelf life of “make money online” blogs appears to be about three months–correct me if I’m wrong, and then check back to see if I’m still around September 19th. 
Oh, and feel free to torment me in the comments by telling me that you did, indeed, click on over and sign up.
4. I’m not convinced it’s ethical. The site itself plays up how it is good to “get in” before everyone else does. Am I really providing a service to readers by hoping that they sign up for a site where they probably won’t get any money, but I will–if they buy something later?
In life, you usually find out about something good when it’s too late — like getting the skinny on a huge golf club sale that ended yesterday. Or, being handed a Denny’s 50% off coupon when you just ate there like two hours ago.
I know, sometimes life sucks.
Well, this time… YOU will be the one who is laughing.
5. I can’t keep track of it all. There are so many affiliate programs online that I can’t remember what is what. To make things worse, they keep changing things around all the time. At any rate, only the DreamHost affiliate program is making me any money, and I won’t see a dime of that until next year, if people renew their contracts. Reason? I give away my entire $97 commission when people use my promocode: ILOVEBLOGGRRL. Now that is a service. I can say with absolute confidence that I offer the best DreamHost discount online or anywhere else.
So, obviously I hope to keep making some bucks with Dreamhost. It’ll be interesting to see how the DealDotCom frenzy plays out. Hopefully, I won’t be looking back at this post with regret.
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I’m afraid I succummed to Dealdotcom, but only putting a banner up on the site. Thought I’d give it a try, but wouldn’t do a post about it though. Kinda drove me insane yesterday the amount of bloggers who did post about DealDotcom yesterday, your post was like a breath of fresh air.
Good post!
Wow, I’ve been out of the loop the past few days. I have no clue what Dealdotcom is lol.
haha its an amazing affilate program! get on it through mine! props to blogrrrl!! nice post! subscribed hope you come to use and do the same!
Great minds and all that, Bloggrrl. I saw this mentioned twice this morning and my first thought was that as soon as the biggies are using this it doesn’t leave much room for us smallies (I’m talking about me there, not you!) I’m sure that anyone that reads my blog on blogging is already signed up with the big guns.
Ok - you got me. I don’t understand why I’ve got a link from you, but no trackback or mention… Hummm… dealdotcom? only time will tell.
Hi Michelle - I didn’t sign up for it either. As you say, there’s not a lot of point in selling the same things as everyone else. And you can’t go recommending things just cos they’re cheap. They have to be good too.
By the way - what you did with dreamhost was a genius idea.
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I don’t have any idea what this affiliate program is, even though I’ve seen it on just about every single blog I visit. :c) So about DreamHost, is that the green host that uses carbon electricity or something?
I so agree with you… bloggers will read something on a ‘popular’ blog, and then rush to put something identical on their own blog. So congrats to you for not getting sucked in!
Well, who knows what DealDotCom will turn in to, but it’s free to sign-up so it’s not as annoying as MLM opportunities that require initial sign-up costs. It’s just like Woot! or any of the other “deal of the day” sites, except that there are affiliate opportunities too… nothing spam or invasive. The downside, however, is that it’s tough to gauge how many people will buy these types of products.
There’s potential there, but it depends on how big of a market they can appeal to, of people who will wait to check the new item listed at 12AM CT every night… thousands do that with Woot!, it remains to be seen how it’ll go down at DealDotCom.
In the meantime, I’m giving it a chance.. so if anyone wants to sign up under me…
The dealdotcom offers a very good commission kickback with an MLM-esque secondary kickback too. But what are the products going to be? If they are gonna be over priced ‘plug-in for your website’ software that’s available free online anyway - then ouch.
All i can say is - bring on the shemale’s!
But I just read your comment in Blog About Your Blog that you did signed up to check and see. So should I still read and believe your five flimsy reasons?
While I agree a lot of these affiliate programs are silly, I don’t really agree that if you aren’t one of the “Big Guns” you can’t make any money off of them. It isn’t just other bloggers that read about this stuff. There is always going to be an up and comer that sees it somewhere and signs up under you. A real go getter that pours their energy into something. It isn’t always about getting a ton of people, it is many times about getting the right people.
Sure…it’s a crap shoot, but honestly, how much time does it take you to sign up for these places anyways and spread the word a little? IF it works, great, if not, big deal. Shouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
Yeah…most of these big time “Make Money Blogs” really suck ass. They are built for lemmings. Made to take advantage of human greed, and they do. They do because people are lazy and always want to make a quick buck. Writing about it being bad is the exact same thing. You know EXACTLY what you are doing when you write a controversial post about a popular topic…lol
I just can’t stand people who blatantly ripoff things from others. Make money with them or not, it just pisses me off. Someone else spent lots of time and effort designing that. I can autogenerate thousands of look-alike woot sites with a different amazon product on each one. This is a blackhat scraper site disguised as a good marketing idea.
I am really proud to have been included on the same list with you
I’d buy my lipstick from you if only to see you do the Shemale thing.
Once upon a time I was an unemployed salesperson and I thought I could make a fortune selling MK. I’d had some of the most sophisticated sales training in existence, I could sell that stuff! I forgot to factor in the idea that you have to recruit your friends and family and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I ended up with, I don’t know, a huge honkin’ amount of make-up and a lot of regret for time wasted. My guess is that Dealdotcom would be the same thing, only without the redemption of good skin.
I skipped Deal as well. Though I did sign up for BlogRush. I guess that says I’d rather have traffic, even potential traffic, than revenue. *L*
I don’t hold out much hope for either one. Sure there is a lot of talk about them now, but what about 6 months from now? Will they still be around then?
Great post and you make some good points. I did blog about it but my reason for bringing it to light wasn’t for people to sign up and promote it. It was for the discounts they might be able to get if there is a product promoted that they were thinking about buying anyway.
For BlogRush I mentioned that the downside was that the traffic generation as far as referrals would mainly be for people in the internet marketing niche. This has been true of so many of these types of viral referral products from listfx, to listinferno to insantbuzz.
The only people that really benefit are the one’s in IM niche. I’ve been running an online fitness business since 2002. I’m not going to get any sign ups for blogrush by promoting it to my fitness list.
The marketing bloggers will be the one to benefit from referral traffic, not those of us trying to make it in non-how to make money niches.
Gregg
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