Affiliate Marketing is Inherently Boring

Affiliate marketing used to be fun. Not anymore.

What changed?

It used to be unbelievably easy to making money in affiliate marketing. Unbelievably, because you've had to experience it to believe it. We're talking millions, if you did it right, and if you did it *right* you didn't need to work a lot.

Old school affiliates, the smart ones, took their gains and found ways to inflate their saved profits elsewhere.

In other words, affiliate marketing used to be a godsend profit machine: Make tons of money by doing very little actual work. But that's all in the past.

Affiliate marketing in itself has never been fun. It was always the money, that's it. And the easy money is gone. The mavericks have moved on. There's plenty more interesting things to do in life.

The Zombie Army Trick

The major players in the affiliate industry nowadays mostly consists of mid-sized marketing corporations, plus a bunch of inflated egos.

Mostly, affiliation today is driven by specialized lead marketing companies, they still make tons of money by leveraging an army of zombies. It's the usual art of employment. The timeless one-trick pony which works across any domain, any industry.

In addition, there's thousands, probably millions, of independent affiliates, from bloggers to influencers and whatnot, usually happy with making enough to cover hosting or their coffee. Soul-sellers, mostly. The art of lying and fakery.

If you want to engage in affiliate marketing, there's your options.

But really, as always, there are exceptions. Affiliate marketing could, perhaps, for some people, be the door that unlocks your freedom, independence, the good things.

Hope

Affiliates must find companies with identical values and corresponding visions. The usual marketing schemes of lies and manipulation is unsustainable. These structures will always collapse.