John Reese internet failure!

Do you know John Reese? Well according to Mashable - a WAY more trafficked blog than this measly one - says that John is an internet failure and is a black mark on the internet because he makes money by using internet marketing. What’s worse is they really do not even know what type of marketing John does and have accused him of horrendous marketing practices. Now it seems to me that they are bashing anyone who tries to make money on the internet. The whole idea that internet marketing is bad is laughable but it is a focus of many bloggers, writers and internet snobs that feel it is degrading the free internet.

To quote one of my favorite mentors - “Mashable is full of $#@!” OK it was better when Ross wrote it - John Reese Vs. Mashable - Consider me in your corner John!

So what I am interested in and one of the reasons I am writing this post is to find out why is it bad to make money on the internet? Spamming is bad and I hate it as much if not more than most people, but how about just providing people with good quality information for a price? I mean writers do it all the time. They write their books, their movies, their plays, their poems and yes they do it because they love it but they also get paid! What is different about doing the same thing on the internet?

Now how about affiliate marketing? Do not people in the “real world” get commission for selling items such as cars, houses, or just about any other service or product? What is so wrong with doing that on the internet? Is there some sort of taboo I do not know about or is it just that I don’t get it, sort of like I don’t get the whole Love and Peace Man thing from the 60’s. Am I just too much of a neanderthal and not an internet elitist so I just don’t get why it is so wrong to make money on the internet? Could someone set me straight?

In the meantime I am going to support a very successful internet marketer in John Reese of which I do use BlogRush John just not on this blog…LOL… and post his response to Mashable, even if this blog is very small with only a small amount of visitors - Wake Up Call: Web 2.0 Wouldn’t Exist Without Internet Marketers

Also I am going to try and make some cash with this post (just being honest), by promoting a seminar I think you should attend - I am going to go to Ross Goldbergs Masters Seminar in Chicago are you going to be there? -  YES I AM

Now the above link is an affiliate link however to be honest I would promote this seminar even if I did not have an affiliate link to it. So tell me is it so wrong to make some money on referring someone to a fantastic service, product, or in this case seminar?