I mostly promote products in the Travel industry, but sales are a little slow at the moment. SO i thought of promoting business opportunity products. I'm thinking of promoting "maverick money makers' NOW... I am a little scared of the FTC since they are cracking down on a lot of markets.... if they cracked on the owner of that program (registered on clickbank, too) could they go after me for promoting it as an affiliate? Would this even happen, the FTC going after them simply for selling a business opportunity, you think?
Not really, unless it's supporting some of illegal action; They would not put you at sole liability, but would just delete your records from the affiliation provider and you wouldn't receive your payment. Make sure, if your working with new markets relating to money that their entity are approved by a governed authority (like FSA - Financial Services Authority in United Kingdom). I'm not too sure how it works with Clickbank, ask them. They'll be able to support you further.
does anyone have any more information on this issue, I would like to get the answer to this question as well. Thanks
as an affiliate you are just advertising the product....All TV station should be closed by know considering the advertising they put on for diff. crap...
Make sure you do not go over board on your advertising about the "quality" of the product...NO More than the producer.
It depends, are you are compliant to preexisting guidelines according to the FTC? If you are blatantly falsifying ads in an already overly heightened market making boatloads of money... it's possible to feel the lash!
For one, you can't be sued by the government, they decide you owe them money, then you do. Usually through fines. You don't pay, you go to jail. Second, don't worry about it, as long as your not breaking any marketing laws in your advertisements, you'll be fine. Just make sure you are paying your taxes (or at least claiming the income to the IRS)
What are you talking about? Of course you can be sued by the government, and especially the FTC. It happens all the time. This is an old article, but it is from a marketing source and, I think plainly shows how wrong your first statement is. I am not sure where you got such an incorrect statement of the law. Also, we do not put people in jail for owing money in this country, another absurd proposition put forth which is totally incorrect statement of the laws in the United States. http://directmag.com/news/marketing_ftc_lawsuits_five/
Yeah if you make false claims outside of what the company selling the product promises then you probably could. Such as if you claim a biz opp can make you a billionaire guaranteed and it says nothing like that on the product page. Also, almost all the TV stations have a disclaimer at the beggining of infomercials that say they do not support or endorse any claims made by the infomercial to avoid liability.
Excuse me, I have never heard of the US Government filing a civil lawsuit against anyone. Also, if the government fines you, and you don't pay, you DO go to jail, or you get your wages garnished. Depending on the sum of the money you owe and the frogginess of the person deciding whether or not to file charges on you. Now, the jail thing may be more of a if your fined by a state thing, as most states now have a failure to pay just debt can result in jail time law. However, the state government is still a government.