An inquiring affiliate marketing mind wants to know:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re willing to indulge me, why DON\u2019T you have affiliate offers\u2026 considering you regularly sell them yourself? I imagine plenty of people would love to promote you if they could get a cut.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The list of reasons is long but distinguished.<\/p>\n
And while my other companies (Learnistic\/BerserkerMail & Low Stress Trading) do have offers affiliates can sell\u2026 it is true I do not allow affiliates to sell my books or newsletter and very likely never will. And the reason I probably never will has to do with all kinds of reasons, like, for instance:<\/p>\n
* Physical products are an absolute pain in the arse to sell via affiliates.<\/p>\n
* FTC rules mean me having to \u201cpolice\u201d what affiliates say, and I don\u2019t have the time or inclination to do that.<\/p>\n
* Nexus rules about sales tax that might come into play \u2014 at the very least I would forbid anyone living in the Socialist Republics of California, New York, Illinois, or New Jersey from having anything to do with selling any of my offers.<\/p>\n
* I am an awful money manager and don\u2019t want to deal with paying affiliates.<\/p>\n
* Most important of all\u2026<\/p>\n
I preach to the already-initiated, and not the uninitiated in my advertising. And because of that, my sales letters do not appeal to. and my offers are not-at-all suitable for, anyone not already on my list, sold \u201con\u201d me, and who does not know me or is at least somewhat familiar with how I operate, think, and do things.<\/p>\n
For those and many other reasons it has zero appeal to me.<\/p>\n
And no, I don\u2019t care about the money left on the table.<\/p>\n
Not everything is about money.<\/p>\n
I value my time, energy, and emotional bandwidth a helluva lot more than I value money, because without those precious assets, money would mean very little to me. And, ironically, I would have much less of it anyway as a result. Something a lot of businesses who do the solo thing find out the hard way, as they spin wheels and burn out thinking everything is about “response.”<\/p>\n
I have, however, been toying with the idea of licensing for years.<\/p>\n
I even wrote about my plan for it in my elBenbo Press book.<\/p>\n
And eventually I will probably do that sort of thing.<\/p>\n
In fact, if\/when I decide to semi retire by writing fiction by morning and trade options in the afternoon\u2026 I will probably only sell the Email Players newsletter anymore, and then just license my books to some businesses with gigantic lists and deep pockets who can better exploit them than I can, and let them do their thing with them.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, I have no idea if\/when I will ever do that.<\/p>\n
I am simply typing my thoughts out loud here.<\/p>\n
As for the offers I am associated with you can sell as an affiliate, they include:<\/p>\n
* BerserkerMail<\/p>\n
* Learnistic<\/p>\n
* Low Stress Trading<\/p>\n
Contact me personally if you want to sell them.<\/p>\n
Although with Low Stress Trading you\u2019ll have to be a client to sell it.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all for today.<\/p>\n
Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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