Exactly 20 months ago my partner and I gave up on Affiliate Marketing. After hitting the first 5 figure „profit“ month we got hit with the hard reality – “The advertiser won’t pay” reality.

We pushed mad ad spend on a new network we worked with. As we were beginners, we literally maxed out our credit cards just to realize we won’t get paid at the end of the month.

Once we asked in our Follow Along for advice on what to do, some people recommended us to give up – and we actually did.

Lesson #1 – Always make sure you get paid weekly and never ever let some one tell you to give up – They might be wrong

Fast forward to 2016 I was unsatisfied with my other business and I started to get into Affiliate Marketing again – This time on Facebook.

It was a very long way to figure out how to even setup the infrastructure to be able to run FB. After that it took months to actually understand how to come up with proper angles and run campaigns.

I asked a guy Mr. M, which I knew from our friend circle and he was super open to share and showed us how things are actually being run. Without this guy, we probably wouldn’t be where we are now.

„In case you read this, you know who you are and I hope you know I appreciate all what you did for me and the team!“

Lesson #2 – Don’t be afraid to ask ...

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