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Often a man is his own worst enemy (Cicero)

You are entering a new sphere: optimism, motivation, "now we will solve everything", "we will analyze", "we will do it right", "we will earn money" attitude! Rubbing your hands, ready to act, but...

And here is the snag. Not everything is as fast as we would like it to be. There is no traffic flow, and the money has not been credited to the bank account. Enthusiasm plummets. Motivation is dying.

Why is it that someone manages to promote a campaign and take mountains of profit, while someone still hasn't? What prevents you from becoming a successful affiliate marketing?


Motivation

One article, one video on YouTube - and here you are building sandcastles with optimism and excitement. Considering the profit not yet earned or simple: trying to share the skin of an unkilled bear.

But a heartless reality rushes in and quickly makes adjustments. It becomes clear that just launching a campaign is not enough, you need to be able to use affiliate networks. All tales of profit are destroyed by a ruthless reality.

As the days grow longer, the storms are stronger. Tons of Information - some contradicts each other and it's not clear what to do. Whom to believe, whom to listen to and where to go?

Already at this stage, the majority runs away and disappears. There are no quick fixes in affiliate marketing and laziness can win over. It is easier to say that affiliate marketing is a trickery, everything is very bad and that nothing works. Nobody wants to just sit down and think. But everyone wants profit.

The learning process takes a relatively long time (like any new business, you need to learn!). This moment is like natural selection. Everything is difficult and incomprehensible at the maximum. But with time and experience, these puzzles and quests will become an understandable routine. You need to endure the moment when you solve problems for an extended period of time. You need to study the issue, test, try - and not give up.


G stands for - greed

This is not only about affiliate marketing. Everywhere and everyone is waiting for quick profit. Easy money, as advertised on Instagram: affiliate marketing, crypto, investments, pyramid schemes, network marketing.

Affiliate marketing is both risky, and confusing, and complex, and not very stable. But not quick at all. Not easy. For beginners, it's not easy at all.

Areas with money are not easy to study. Most of them are complex and require contributions. Affiliate marketing is the same. But No, we don't want to take off our rose-colored glasses, we're all waiting to get rich just like that. Preferably tomorrow.

Profit with six zeros will not come immediately, keep launching, do not give up.


No time for tests

“I'll just take the offer, and start launching right away. Strategy, tests, budget - no, I haven’t heard”.

It is clear that you want to save up, especially if the starting budget is small and not waste money on tests. It happens that beginners make conclusions about the performance of the bundle after 2-3 leads. But as a rule, the conclusions are incorrect.

For example, Vimmy has a smart tools optimization, it optimizes campaigns automatically. But in order for it to work and to help with optimization, it needs data. This is not 2-3 leads, either in plus, or in minus.

Therefore, when choosing verticals and offers, do not focus on the amount of payouts (and yes, in Tier1 they are much higher). Choose verticals where the cost per lead is low. These are Tier 2 and 3, where for a conditional $100-200 you will get significantly more data than in Tier 1. In addition, it is psychologically easier to spend $ 100 for tests than five times more.

For the same reason, don't look for “unique offers”. They are unique, you won't find them. Don't reinvent the wheel! Launch onto a simpler vertical, it will definitely work.


Redundant testing

The budget for tests has already been spent - even in minus. You sit and wait, what if I get lucky NOW? Empty hopes.

This is the opposite extreme of no tests. Sometimes a minus is a minus, it makes no sense to wait in vain. Save your budget.

You can follow the rule: One bundle costs as much as 10 leads. When the allotted budget ends, move on.


No man is an island

When the first normal profit comes, it overwhelms the beginners. For example: “I have learned everything”, “I am a pro”, “I can do everything”, “Why should I go to the conference, chat on the forums, ask "stupid" questions?”, “Why study cases, look for new approaches and sources?” “I know it all, only profit from now on”.

In affiliate marketing, things change rapidly. Here you need to keep abreast, try on and on new things. Even when you have been working for 10 years! Needless to say for the beginners.

Communication with colleagues and the community is a great help in the work of an affiliate marketer. Because no man is an island


Repeating cases

Seductive thought to repeat someone else's success. Receiving a tempting, stable profit and rejoicing. The only free cheese is in the mousetrap.

No one will share working bundles that give a profit. You shouldn't believe everything that is mentioned in these cases. And even more so blindly copy them.

But reading case studies is helpful. There are new ways of working, geos, sources, approaches of other affiliates. A beginner will find it educational.


The skin of an unkilled bear

Day, week, month were profitable. And so you multiply your profit by 7. There are seven days in a week, right? Or even 12, because there are 12 months in a year , and already distribute future profits.

It doesn't work like that. Anything can happen in affiliate marketing, tomorrow your profit will change, in minus or in plus, no one can say.

The same with borrowed money and microcredits for scaling and increasing the profits. Be careful with such ideas. They may not be justified, and you will find yourself in debt.

Be careful that the interest on the loan does not “eat up” the entire profit. Or that they won't put you in/more debt. Especially if you work solo.


Affiliate marketing is a business

Success in any business is hard work, hours of study and testing. Invest money, work at a loss or at zero, but don't give up.

There are no shortcuts to success. And any so-called "gurus" who promise easy money just want to quickly earn it from you themselves. Don't trust these people.

The truth is that getting started is always difficult and scary. There is not a single affiliate marketer who launched one campaign and woke up the next day as a super-affiliate.

Don't give up, everything will work out!

And what was the most difficult for you at the beginning of the journey?
 
I'd say my biggest hope is just to forget the quick get rich schemes and develop outstanding content, because right now I am getting hundreds of clicks with no conversions, I think tweaking my pages wont work as well as just upscaling my content to a make a more natural, more valuable site. Once the content is in place I will learn all the testing and adjusting landing pages etc.
 
I am getting hundreds of clicks with no conversions,
Where is your traffic from and is it real people?

www.adscore.com is one bot filter 'tool'

You can read more about the lifecycle of professional click fraud:

Polygraph | The anatomy of a click fraud gang

I just saw this today at reddit. They have a Free trial of 500 clicks you can try (no endorsement --just a suggestion)

This is from the thread:

Until you know the status of the traffic, especially network ads, you are referring --optimizing will not matter.

All traffic is NOT equal :rolleyes:
 
Thanks for the link. I will try to utilize that. I am not ready to post any details on my business I am just working on building it steadily. I have no rush and a lot of free time.
 
Thanks!! You have touched on an important subject.

There are many reasons why people may fail in affiliate marketing:
  • Lack of niche expertise
  • Poor website design
  • Lack of traffic
  • Poor marketing strategy
  • Lack of patience
  • Not tracking and analyzing
One piece of advice to avoid failure in affiliate marketing is to consistently track and analyze your campaigns. This will help you to optimize your campaigns and increase your chances of success.
 
As a Newbie, What Stops You From Getting Started

This may indicate a few more things as well. In my opinion, what I see day in and day out with newbies is the failure to be a daily student (I've got 20 years in this and I still research and study everyday), the failure to start with a proper budget, and a consistent daily action plan.

If they could just be mature enough to treat this all like a business, they would all get to the challenges you then mention which are normal and typical for their next stage of development as a marketer.
 
treat this all like a business
bu.. but... the guy on YouTube said it was easy
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Sometimes you get lucky and get to ride a trending program --those are far and few to be found.

You have to research then try things found to have promise and set pivots. Lose small win big.
 
Because it’s saturated

You are so full of it!

This industry is in the billions every year with a huge growth curve. There is no saturation. What there is are loads of people that don't take the time to learn the business and when they fail they say things like "it's saturated"!

per Statista
U.S. affiliate marketing spend is due to reach 8.2 billion U.S. dollars by 2022

per Demand Sage
Affiliate marketing has a market value of $17 billion as of 2022. Statista estimates that affiliate marketing spending in 2022 is around $8.2 billion U.S. dollars. 16% of online orders in the United States come through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is used by 83% of marketers to raise brand recognition.

per Forbes
If you have a product-based business, affiliate marketing is a no-brainer.

Those are late 2022 remarks. Most them are predicting one of the largest expansions of affiliate marketing in history over the 2023 year.

So, when you say "because it's saturated", you show just how uninformed you truly are. Your remark is irresponsible because it may influence a newbie negatively by giving them this false information. The word to use is "competitive". Therefore, usuario00021, learn to be competitive!
 
bu.. but... the guy on YouTube said it was easy

Yes, I agree with that "guy"! :rofl It's easy, but then that "guy" is saying it for reasons other than my own.

I returned to Syracuse University in the late nineties on a full scholarship and finished top of the class. I found that easy, very challenging, but to me it was easy because I was so dedicated, committed, and focused. I am sure that is not what the YouTube guy meant. However, that is the lesson to learn. Most anyone that commits to those tenets (dedicated, committed, and focused) will succeed.

As for YouTube guys saying "It's Easy", "Only An Hour A Day", "My 3 Year Old Does It", "Just Set It & Forget It", etc., etc., etc.......... Well if you follow them you will become them, a person full of empty promises and no way to pay your mortgage!
 
That is why I like disruptive trends and keep looking --they are not saturated but disruptive trends are few and far in-between.

What is trending? Or is consistently producing revenue?


I make 3.8% on my money passively sitting in a SPAXX account secured by US Treasury Bonds --Why work my ass off just to risk money on stale or unproven offers? If I am going to prove any business it will be my own where I have complete access to all data.

You can't segment and sort unaudited maybe data. You are just shuffling junk data a lot of the time today if you are doing any affiliate process you will not have first count. The stupid internet does not define first count, LMAO. First count means that you are the one "running the cash bin" you see the money that really comes in and can account for it, and its sourcing, as well as any outflow.

I sold for 20 years face-to-face, (mano-a-mano), I got the contract signed --a solid deal and could always go back to the customer. Most of the time I knew the real profit or loss or at least my agreed compensation.

Don't get me wrong; I have made it work in affiliate sales --but on my own terms -- and earned hundreds of thousands in commissions on millions in sales over the years. But that was years ago, under very different marketing circumstances.
 
You have to research then try things found to have promise and set pivots. Lose small win big.

So sayeth the lord, and every damn successful marketer on the planet! I have to go now because I have to intervene on an affiliates behalf over at YouTube where a "guy" is trying to recruit this affiliate/newbie in Alaska to locally promote some Bermuda Shorts & Hawaiian Shirt offers.
 
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