PUBLIC MARKS from jemycc with tag "bum marketing"

After a few years of working online, one thing that still fascinates me is the cyclical nature of internet making. In the earlier part of this year, it was ‘bum marketing’ this and ‘bum marketing’ that. No doubt that Travis Sago, who basically finessed the idea of good old fashioned article marketing into something new and trendy did a great job. But, you could not escape bum marketing....

By now, it is probably quite hard to come up with anything new to say about Bum Marketing, but, being someone who point blank refuses to accept the futility of attempting the merely impossible, here goes….. From my own experience of the recent bum marketing phenomena, the main plank of the modus operandi seems to be that marketers attempt to make readers of their articles buy into the affiliate programs that they are promoting. Nothing wrong with that per se, except that I believe a few marketers have come to grief with article directories whose rules specifically outlaw using direct links to affiliate sites in the authors bio or resource box.

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Since my last post, I have a few indignant messages suggesting - no, telling me - that I am wrong, that article marketing is NOT the same as bum marketing...