In the past month I have seen two different internet marketers offering intern programs.

Here’s how they were presented.

You sign up for the free internet marketing intern program, and the internet marketer would teach you how to market. As an intern you would be given marketing tasks promoting the internet marketer’s products. In return the intern would learn how to market and then could move on and market anything they wanted.

Sounds like a win-win. Instead of buying an internet marketing course, the intern gets the training for free. The internet marketer gets help promoting their products.

Plus, at the end of the program, the best intern would have the opportunity to work closely with the internet marketer in the future.

I signed up to one of these program to see what it was really all about.

The internet marketer had a series of emails setup, directing you to perform certain tasks. The interns were required to email the internet marketer certain pieces of information related to the task.

That kept the interns on task and accountable, plus it helped the internet marketer know who was working and it helped to monitor results from each intern.

The intern tasks I received were reasonable and valid. The only reason I didn’t stick with the program was because the tasks were nothing new, knowledge wise, for me. Since I had the knowledge it didn’t make much sense for me to spend my time building a business for someone else.

If the internet marketer let me be an intern and promote his products as an affiliate, I may have stuck with it. But, since I wasn’t even going to make a commission it didn’t make sense to me.

So, I got to thinking about this whole intern process, because it really is a great idea.

If I start an intern program, for free, and have the interns market my products as an affiliate, is it really still an intern program?

This approach seems much better to me. The interns are working to help sell my products, which is good for me. In return the intern is learning internet marketing and has the potential to make commissions.

This seems like the ultimate win-win to me.

But, if the interns have the potential to earn as affiliates, then aren’t I just doing a great job of helping my affiliates succeed? It’s really just great affiliate support – right? Is it okay to call it an intern program?

See what happens when I start thinking too much.

Let me know what you think – maybe I’ll start in intern program, if there’s enough interest.

Mike

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