Why I don’t dig on affiliate offers

An inquiring affiliate marketing mind wants to know: “If you’re willing to indulge me, why DON’T you have affiliate offers… considering you regularly sell them yourself? I imagine plenty of people would love to promote you if they could get a cut.” The list of reasons is long but distinguished. And while my other companies (Learnistic/BerserkerMail & Low Stress Trading) do have offers affiliates can sell… 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: * Physical products are an absolute pain in the arse to sell via affiliates. * FTC rules mean me having to “police” what affiliates say, and I don’t have the time or inclination to do that. * Nexus rules about sales tax that might come into play — 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. * I am an awful money manager and don’t want to deal with paying affiliates. * Most important of all… 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 “on” me, and who does not know me or is at least somewhat familiar with how I operate, think, and do things. For those and many other reasons it has zero appeal to me. And no, I don’t care about the money left on the table. Not everything is about money. 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." I have, however, been toying with the idea of licensing for years. I even wrote about my plan for it in my elBenbo Press book. And eventually I will probably do that sort of thing. In fact, if/when I decide to semi retire by writing fiction by morning and trade options in the afternoon… 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. Admittedly, I have no idea if/when I will ever do that. I am simply typing my thoughts out loud here. As for the offers I am associated with you can sell as an affiliate, they include: * BerserkerMail * Learnistic * Low Stress Trading Contact me personally if you want to sell them. Although with Low Stress Trading you’ll have to be a client to sell it. That’s all for today. Ben Settle P.S. As far as BerserkerMail goes: We recently had yet another copywriter declare he will be firing his clients who don’t use the platform. Take it from here, Adrián Vaca === Just to let you know that after using over 10 email marketing tools in 3 years, Berserkermail is definitely the best by far. I am so happy with the tool that this will be an exclusive condition for working with new clients. I prefer to lose them than to go back to using other tools where, when you have a problem, you have to talk for 3 days with very poorly trained bots. If everything goes as I hope, at the beginning of 2025 I will purchase the 20,000 contacts plan. === You can get a test drive, free, to see if it’s your bag here: [( This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2024 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. Click here to [unsubscribe]( Settle, LLC PO Box 1056 Gold Beach Oregon 97444 USA