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>I have a full-time job working for a billionaire Out of curiosity, as a very occasional viewer of his channel: what is it that he does in that role?
I believe he's recently started working for Eron Wolf under the FUTO banner. (but I might be wrong). This might be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35911406
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Written by AI?
I haven't watched the video and was very happy to have a summary. What makes you question it was written by an AI?
For those who don't watch the video: This is about his affiliate account. It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Amazon seems to be almost the only game in town. Sure, there are thousands of other affiliate programs. But they pay surprisingly little. Often affiliates earn only like $0.05 per click (on average). While the same company pays $1 per click on other channels like G…
That's how cashback sites work.
it would actually align everyone's interests in actually incentivising sales, not clicks.
Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…
> The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. Why is this even a problem? A purchase is a purchase.
This, btw, is the hardest problem in marketing.
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I believe he's recently started working for Eron Wolf under the FUTO banner. (but I might be wrong). This might be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35911406
Eron Wolf sounds like an Elon Musk parody
Whenever something like this happens it's worth looking at the entire scope, this is not as simple as Amazon banning the guy. You need to look at the steps that took place, someone had to actually make the call and have him banned. There was probably an email chain and this was the decision that they arrived to. Linking shitty things that happen to a person rather than some abstract corp gives the right perspective.…
The worst part is the decision was made without proof. As distasteful or offensive as it was alleged to be its still just words. Who cares.
If there was one iota of proof, half the people on the internet would be arguing how it's Amazon's right and duty to brick people's homes if they say the bad word.
None of them realizing that once such precedent is established, the Amazon corporation will be using and abusing it to it's own advantage.
Such non-immediate concerns are beyond half the people in the internet, who lack the ability to project the future more a year ahead.
The real problem is Amazon having monopoly. If there were some true competition, I couldn't care less about Amazon closing my account as I could go to a competitor.
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I haven't watched the video and was very happy to have a summary. What makes you question it was written by an AI?
and also, if the summary was good, why would it matter whether it was written by an AI or not?
For those who don't watch the video: This is about his affiliate account. It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Amazon seems to be almost the only game in town. Sure, there are thousands of other affiliate programs. But they pay surprisingly little. Often affiliates earn only like $0.05 per click (on average). While the same company pays $1 per click on other channels like G…
Surely the solution is to pay per purchase, not per click. That's how cashback sites work. it would actually align everyone's interests in actually incentivising sales, not clicks.
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> The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. Why is this even a problem? A purchase is a purchase.
The purpose of the affiliate program is to bring in new purchases from customers who wouldn't have otherwise purchased. Not to be a rebate for purchases one would have done anyway. This, btw, is the hardest problem in marketing.