Is the 16 year-old affiliate for real?

I wrote about Harrison Gervitz, the 16 year-old who is making it big with affiliate marketing, before here.

After reading his Shoemoney post I checked out his blog. He has had quite a lot of negative comments on there from people who are doubting whether he’s real. They even go as far as saying it’s his parents that are making the money and he’s just a front.

And so what if he is? If it was his parents making the money, and I don’t for a minute believe it is, and they are using him as a front then I think that’s great marketing. They’ve put a spin on the making-money-with-affiliate thing and gotten themselves some big-time exposure around the web. He has clever parents.

If it is Harrison making the money then he’d do well to ignore all the negative comments. It’s the same people who claim Shoe’s adsense check is fake and so on – and really, who give a shit? There will always be people who want to bitch and flame those who are more successful than themselves.

Harrison, just carry on making the money and doing what you do. Harrison’s blog and the Shoemoney post.