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Originally Posted by Nicky
You've been selling since you were 14 so for like 70 years and you still have no clue about marketing. Good job
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What do you call marketing?
It's not loading free sites with tons of free porn. It's not SEO. In fact it's nothing an affiliate should be allowed to do.
Marketing is helping to shaping the product to meet customers and market demands, then improving and guiding the sellers work.
I've worked for companies with big marketing departments, staffed by professional marketing people. They never told us to give away so much of the product for free it killed sales.
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Originally Posted by garce
Selling and marketing are not actually related.
Lots of whores can sell their bodies - few can market them in a way that generates real cashflow. 
Eg.; I have a small engine repair dude and a lawn care dude who sold me their services. They do a great fucking job. They can't market themselves, though.
If they COULD market themselves, this enitre continent would be bright green - and no tiller or riding mower would ever break down.
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You have to separate Selling, Marketing and advertising.
Most affiliates and the vast majority of surfers are on "Advertising" sites. sites with loads of adverts from sponsors. Many times the affiliate has no say in how the advert is compiled. If he did he would be having a small hand in the marketing part of the exercise.
Blogs can "market" a product. By shaping the text promoting the product.
Selling isn't laying out the goods and taking an order, that's supplying. Selling is convincing people your product fits their needs. With 1,000 thinking it won't. Then the obvious conclusion is we are very bad at supplying and if they want to link it, marketing as well.
You can call a cart horse a race horse, doesn't make it a race horse.