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September 24, 2024 35 mins

If you have a great product and offer a commission for people to promote it, they’d happily do it and you’d just make money, right? Not so fast…

On this episode, Melissa and Todd recount the painful memories of spending $130k on affiliate marketing over 10 months; an experience Melissa considers the “biggest financial mistake she’s made in her career”.

Takeaways:
• Why we jumped into this channel too early
• Reasons why this strategy was a colossal failure for us
• Why you should stay away from affiliate marketing (for now)
• The complexities of affiliate marketing nobody told you about
• Things you need in place before affiliate marketing might work

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