Pretty much every day, I’m asked to be an affiliate for a program or product.

If you’ve been around the coaching/personal development world for awhile I’m sure you get a lot of the same requests.

I’ve been getting very picky about who I’m an affiliate for, because if I accepted every request I’d just be doing affiliate stuff all day long …

AND more important, it’s my name attached to that person.

So if I recommend someone or something that isn’t very good, it reflects poorly on me.

Earlier this year, I started following an affiliate policy. Here’s my criteria:

1) I have to know and trust the person/product, and ideally have used it to get a sense of what it’s like “under the hood”

2) I refuse to do the boring, bland, copy and paste swipe copy that a lot of people ask their affiliates to use. Without mentioning names, for some program launches I get the *same* email from four or five different people (does that actually work???)

So if I’m going to send out something as an affiliate, it’ll be in my own language, not just a swipe file. It’ll at least be from my own mouth and with my own personal opinions.

Speaking of affiliate stuff, I’ve been using Thinkific as a platform for my online programs, and I’m a proud affiliate of theirs …

I’m co-hosting a live training with Sid from Thinkific today at 2 pm EST, for how to create and sell your first online course. Here’s the link to register:

http://get.thinkific.com/marc-mawhinney/

If you can’t make the live training, there’ll be a replay sent to everyone who registers.

Hope to see you there.