Poll: Do Ethics Affect Your Business Decisions?

It’s been a while since the last poll eh? The last one, How Important are Forums?, resulted in some numbers that pretty much correlated with the comments I got on it. For the most part people think forums are just optional. Although I think most websites will benefit from having forums, I know plenty of people who added forums long after their sites became popular and profitable. At the end of the day it’s just a hard factor to measure. In any case, here are the results!

Now it’s time for a new poll (yay, right?)! I’ve been getting some mixed responses, as was to be expected, to my latest series on business ethics and how they affect internet marketing in the public eye. Personally I always put ethics above profit, but that could be one of the reasons why I’m not a 6 figure earner. It’s one of the biggest questions not only in internet marketing but in business in general. However with the anonymity of the internet the ethics commonly practiced in business for the sole purpose of saving face tend to go out the window and we’re left with a much more raw version of business.

So what I’d like to ask you, my faithful readers – Do Ethics Affect Your Business Decisions?

What do you guys think? Does the consumer’s experience matter? Or is the only important factor your bottom line? I’m not going to criticize anybody who responds no matter how their opinion may differ from mine, so please feel free to comment and let me know how you really feel!