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The way this question is framed suggests you might be hitting the same wall most people hit with affiliate.
Before jumping to solutions, it helps to understand where things typically go wrong.
**Most likely culprit:** ignoring unit economics. This accounts for roughly 44% of cases I have seen.
**Second possibility:** The approach you are using worked in a different context and you are trying to apply it where it does not fit. marketing has specific conditions where it works well and conditions where it falls apart.
**Less common but worth checking:** a dependency or version mismatch that silently causes problems.
To narrow it down: try affiliate in the simplest possible isolated environment first. That will tell you which of these you are dealing with.
by marlonfrancis2874
Honest take, because I wish someone had told me this earlier.
Everything you will read about affiliate will make it sound more complicated than it is. Here is what 4 years of working with marketing has actually taught me.
The most common trap is spending too long on research instead of doing.
What actually moved the needle for me: I stopped trying to understand everything before starting, and just committed to building one real thing instead of more tutorials. After that, scaled to a team of 12 within 18 months.
The one thing I would prioritise: do not compare your beginning to someone else's middle.
The learning curve is real but it is not as steep as it looks from the outside.
by efuamensah69264