Where to draw the ethical marketing line?

If being transparent is an essential element to maintaining an ethical blogging presence the next question is ... How does one maximize their revenue generating efforts, while maintaining their transparency and the quality of their content? There is no doubt that the quality of the content plays a vital role in the overall influence and importance of a website. Therefore, without good content a site simply transforms into an annoyingly repetitive late night infomercial.

So ... What does this tell us? Well... in my opinion, It means that in order to be seen through the pollution created by the internet infomercial sites, one must learn how to rise above the noise by producing original online content that serves a purpose to suspecting web surfing consumers. This is accomplished by shedding light on a particular subject that is of importance to a consumer audience.

In other words one must become a citizen marketer, a marketer with an original voice, opinionated messages, and transparent motives. A citizen marketer is someone that participates, creates, and adds original content to a topic. Therefore, each consumer that you can inform and send to your unique Affiliate ID can potentially yield a sales commission. Another way to think about this is in terms of quality content. Every piece of original content can attract potential consumers that are searching for your articles topic. And, each consumer that finds your article could possibly end up buying the product or service that you are creating the original content for.