Beginner Series Part 1: Set Realistic Goals

I would like to make a series of posts for beginners that hopefully help to get a better and easier start and that also shall clarify some stuff.

It´s not necessarily about specific offer verticals or traffic types or so.

It shall be a rather general guideline to help to form a good and winning overall mindset and to develop a better understanding about affiliate marketing in general.

Probably one of the biggest motivations to start affiliate marketing is the money that you can earn so this is what this first post is about.

Often rather sooner than later the reality kicks in and people realize that affiliate marketing is no free ride to wealth and fortune.

One reason is that many people start with wrong and too high expectations so the disappointment when they don´t make 4 figure profit per day on their $500 starting budget in their first 60 days is real although it could be avoided with more realistic expectations.

In this post I will try to show you a more realistic impression about earnings and goals in affiliate marketing and tell you my personal thoughts about it.

First Lesson: Stay Realistic

Of course it sounds great to get rich in 2 months just from sitting in front of the PC and running affiliate campaigns.

But you don´t do yourself a favor when you fall for exaggerated claims or when you start with a „Get rich ASAP“ mindset.

The top level of such mindset is when people don´t even have the needed skills yet to really succeed but they already dream of 5 figures a day because they heard or read that such earnings are possible.

No idea what a tracker is, no idea about landing pages, no idea about testing/optimizing/scaling campaigns, no idea about doing research and so on and so forth but still expect to earn more from affiliate marketing than probably 95% of all people worldwide in their jobs?

Come on bro…

Every beginner in affiliate marketing with such high expectations should ask himself „What sets me apart from the millions of other people who want to succeed in affiliate marketing to justify my expectations“.

The thing is that many beginners read blogs or watch Youtube videos where people tell you that getting rich from affiliate marketing is easy and everyone can succeed there in short time.

Some of these people who tell that it´s easy to make 5 figures a day with affiliate marketing in short time and that everyone can do it earn their money rather by selling courses or stuff than running successful campaigns thems ...