I hope you don’t mind but I need to vent a little bit. I’m sharing this with you because I don’t want you to make the same mistake as these guys did….

I was looking around the ‘net for a product that would be beneficial to you guys and was at a great price. I have to be honest and tell you that this process can sometimes take me several hours to do.

Why?

Because I won’t recommend over priced junk.I do my best to set high standards for my own products and so I expect the same for products I promote.

Well, I found a product that I thought fit the bill. It was a special “Fire sale” type of deal that several products for only $11. It included WordPress plugins that I thought you would like as well as a variety of video and pdf products mostly about getting traffic. I had never heard of the guys running the sale but the page was professional looking, the copy was good and I thought I had found what I was looking for.

Then I made a mistake. I clicked the back button on my browser. :-? You see I have this nasty habit that I don’t suggest a product unless I have purchased it myself. Since I would not be able to download everything at that moment it was my intention to purchase when I got back home and then download. Hence, I left the sales page.

Guess what? A pop up asking me to “WAIT, Are You Sure You Want to Leave” while it loaded another sales page. I clicked the “Leave This Page” option.

Guess what? A pop up asking me to “WAIT, Are You Sure You Want to Leave” while it loaded A DIFFERENT sales page. I clicked the “Leave This Page” option. (again)

Guess what? A pop up asking me to “WAIT, Are You Sure You Want to Leave” while it loaded ANOTHER sales page!

I had to go through this SEVEN TIMES!!!!

Now I don’t mind this marketing tactic though I don’t use it myself. As a marketer myself, I don’t have an issue with being marketed to. In fact, I usually expect the pop up. No big deal.

But SEVEN?!

Needless to say I won’t be promoting this product because I don’t want you to have to go through this ordeal and that would be a reflection on ME.

When you are setting up your sales funnel, you should look at it from the customer point of view and optimize it for maximum benefit to the customer as well as maximum profits. But after you are done with that GO BACK though your funnel. This time thinking about what your affiliates might think about your funnel.

Yes, some affiliates will only care about how much they can make on the offer. But your BEST affiliates will actually care about the people on their list and won’t subject them to offers that will only frustrate them.

I wonder what the funnel would have looked like if I had actually purchased? :roll: