Affiliate Marketing: People Who Ruin It for Other People - BobWP Monetizer Podcast

There are a a lot of different perspectives around how people view affiliate marketing. And I just wanted to touch on one of the core reasons some look at it negatively.

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Years ago, there was a skit on Saturday Night Live,  a talk show called  Ruining It For Everyone. I tried to find a video to drop in here, but no luck. I did find a transcript, though.

Hostess (Julia Sweeney): Also with us is Jerry Langley from New Jersey. Tell us your story and what you ruined.

Jerry Langley (Adam Sandler): Well, um, a few years ago, I-I needed to go to the bathroom so I-I stopped in this restaurant and I asked if I could use theirs. I was in there and I went a little crazy and, uh…I just started whizzing all over the place! I whizzed in the sink and on the mirrors. I figured, I’m not a customer, so I could just whiz away! I went back there the next night and they had a sign up: “Bathroom for customers only.”

Hostess: Well, then…now, because of you, the general public can’t use the bathroom at that restaurant.

The skit went on, with hilarious interviews of more guests who had ruined it for others (the first guy who pumped his own gas and drove off without paying, which resulted in the “pay before pumping” policy, the first person to put razor blades in their homemade fudge and give it out children on Halloween, causing some communities to ban trick or treating, and making the fire station “candy check” necessary, etc.).

The point was that what those few idiots had ruined a good thing for the rest of us.

What does this have to do with affiliates?

As many of you know, I have talked about this before on my blog. As far back as 2012, I wrote a post about an affiliate link on a colleague’s site, only to have the client I referred to it have a terrible experience.

And of course I have talked a lot about it since and even on the podcast.

What brought me back to this topic was a comment on another blog. The discussion got around to hosting and one of the comments bugged me.

Finding the  right hosting is like finding the right theme, not so easy