Lately I’ve been reviewing a bunch of affiliate marketing courses that focus on paid ads to drive traffic, like this course from Anik Singal.
It’s a struggle to find recent student success stories for such courses. And this article from Charles Ngo helps explain why.
In the past, Charles has apparently earned $1 million in annual profit doing affiliate marketing with paid ads, but now he says:
Affiliate marketing isn’t dead yet, but it’s past its glory days. For the vast majority of people, it’s not worth entering the affiliate marketing industry in 2021.
He goes on to clarify that he’s referring specifically to affiliate marketing with paid ads, as opposed to affiliate marketing with organic traffic (eg. SEO).
No coincidence that the top 4 affiliate marketing courses on my list all focus on organic traffic 👌
But before going down the rabbit hole with those, be sure to check out my affiliate marketing primer so you have the right expectations for that business model.
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