Affiliate Marketing Legal Advice
Is this a Pyramid Scheme?
Okay, so a family friend has experience in affiliate marketing (advertising for websites in order to get commission payments when people click her ads and buy the company’s product), which is fine and totally legal. However, she has offered to teach me (and is looking for others) how to make websites for affiliate marketing and how to make money off it, and in return she would take a portion of what I earn. So, what I want to know, is this a pyramid scheme? I don’t think the friend would intentionally plan something illegal like that, but I don’t want to get involved in something potentially rocky. I also feel like I would rather just learn to do affiliate marketing on my own, and keep 100% on what I would earn from commissions. So I guess I’m looking for advice on if it would be wiser to learn affiliate marketing on my own or with someone’s help, and also if this would constitute a pyramid scheme or not. Many thanks.
The way you have described it, this is not a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme is where your you pay money to join a business opportunity and your friend gets part or all of that payment.
In your situation your friend gets paid based on what you eventually earn, not just for you taking part. Your friend is getting paid for ‘teaching you’ and is suggesting a fee based on success rather than charging a set fee.
So I very much doubt that the arrangement is illegal. If you think that you could learn a lot from your friend and if you are willing to pay for that teaching you could perhaps agree a set fee if you feel better with that.
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