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If you don’t want to fail in affiliate marketing, and want to make money, follow these 3 highly useful tips from Matuloo, STM’s #1 moderator.

Affiliate Marketing is hard. As we head into 2021, it has gotten 10x harder than 5 years ago. More competition, more rules, less CPA offers that convert great. You often hear people compare affiliate marketing with PPC to MLM’s. Even though, they are nothing alike. It’s true that failure rate is high for new comers, there’s countless affiliates that Join STM Forum or iAmAffiliate, try a few things, don’t make money and give up real fast. However, it doesn’t have to be that way and in this article I explain why.

Fun fact, There are exactly TWO still-active affiliates that I know of, who started at the same time as I did, back in 1998. It’s pretty hard to believe, because at that time, we were all members of a small private affiliate forum with almost 100 members from my country. Now all of those guys are gone, none of them is active in affiliate marketing anymore, just these two guys and me. To be fair, I don’t keep contact with all of them obviously, but based on the info I have, pretty much all are doing something else now.

At first sight, it might seem weird or even unbelievable, but this is one of the specifics of AM – many affiliates don’t last long. There are several reasons for this, some are obvious, some not so much, but you should be aware of as many as possible – in order to prevent them from killing your AM career too. Let’s take a closer look at the 3 most common ones, that I was able to witness during my journey.