This is my concern too, I think Clickbank should make all affiliates sign a disclosure notice form, where by signing they are forced to read and agree to the FTC guidelines, before being allowed to promote any more products.

People just seem to be continuing as if nothing has changed from what I can tell?

Everything is good with me thanks, hope all is well with you.

Paul

I finally popped past. I have been very busy catching up on my studies and haven’t been able to pop past.

The FTC stuff can be a little confusing. My concern is about being publishers and having affiliates promoting our products. According to the FTC we need to be responsible for our affiliates. So how do we do that when our product is listed with clickbank or paydotcom and we have over 1,000 affiliates?

I think we will find a lot of marketers will have private affiliate programs soon and have an application process, a bit like applying for ebay.

I think it will be important as publishers to know our affiliates and I guess that is where the idea of adswaps will really come into being.

Hope all is well.

Jacinta

Well I have done my research and listened to most of the interview that I mentioned, but there’s still a few things that I’m not sure about… Maybe a disclosure under the link isn’t really necessary, I was just going off what was talked about in the interview I listened to.

There seems to be a number of ways to go about it, and I’m still waiting and watching to see what some of the bigger marketers do in their email promotions…

I think I will most likely include a statement at the end of the email for any promotions, as I’ve seen a couple of people do that so far. But I agree that a lot of people are still carrying on as normal like the changes haven’t happened.

It does seem like a nightmare to police this, and would cost them a lot in man hours and staff costs.

Only time will tell, thanks for your comment.

Paul

I wonder if they really are able to police this with millions upon millions of sites online.

It seems like a regulatory nightmare.
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Yes I’m sure there will be a lot of people, especially affiliate marketers that will decide to give up because of these new rules… Which can only be a good thing for the rest of us

Thanks for the comment, and good luck with your business too… I’m sure we will work together at some point.

Paul

great post! FTC is making it harder on IM’ers but I guess we will see a drop in IM’ers that aren’t serious about their business and that will benefit us!

Btw. Thanks for the comment on my blog.
Have a great day and good luck with your business.

Thomas

Yeah there sure is, this is the beginning of a new era and I’m sure there’s still plenty of ways to make money with info products, without breaking the new guidelines.

We just have to be careful of affiliates for our products now though, if they promote for us and don’t follow the guidelines we get screwed along with them!

I’m sure something will change to protect the product owner from that though, it just doesn’t seem fair as we don’t any control over how other people promote our products?

Thanks for stopping by!

Paul

That doesn’t seem to bad i was expecting something a lot more complicated.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Paul appreciated.

Cheers,

Nick
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Thanks for giving me permission use your legal page, it would certainly save me some time writing my own up from scratch.

Thanks for popping back over here to respond too.

Paul