Rejected by Amazon Affiliates.
6 months ago, I was convinced by email market guru (his words not mine) that I should get into affiliate marketing. He encouraged me to join up with a couple of sites, one being Amazon.
As it turned out, he was not that interested in teaching me anything about affiliate marketing, "just send an email to your database and you will make money". Now the database he is referring too was a list of my clients for my finance broking business. Not the people who I wanted to market affiliate products to.
Any way shortly after this, the guru, decided that he didn't want to work with me and left me to my own devices. His parting words were "you will only get yourself into strife anyway".
While the "guru" wasn't much help, he did set me on the path which ended up with me joining Wealthy Affiliates and learning about how to go about affiliate marketing the proper way.
The reason for the post
Anyway the reason for the post, this morning I received an email from Amazon Associates to say that my application to Amazon Associates had been rejected. It had been 6 months and seeing I had not referred anyone to amazon who purchased anything.
Now in the scheme of things this is not a huge issue, more of an inconvenience. I have signed up again already and have a new affiliate account. It does mean I have some more work to do as I have a number of links on a couple of posts which are for the old account which will now have to be updated.
But that is a small frustration.
The moral to this story (and yes I am well aware that I am rambling) is that not all people who claim to be guru's are worth listening to and if you keep looking you will find a community of people who do care about seeing you succeed.
Thank you Kyle and Carson for creating Wealthy Affiliates and for the community for your wonderful support.
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Sending out Amazon affiliate links via email will get your account terminated. So good thing you knew better than to listen to this 'guru'.
Thanks Josh, I am looking at the silver lining. If he didn't plant the seed, I would never came across your site or WA :)
I think in some way we have all been there. Everything happens for a reason and more importantly it brought you to a place that will help you succeed, if your willing to put in the work.
Nothing good comes easy.
Yes, that is so true. At the same time, you can put in a lot of hard work and not get anywhere. That is what makes WA so wonderful, Kyle and Carson have provided a great framework which will allow us to turn our hard work into success.
Have a wonderful day :)
That's incredible Value! Awesome that you made it here! I have a similar story how I made it here!!
I'm sorry this happened. So many people, including myself, have had bad experiences before arriving here. Chin up. Have a great day
Pablo, frustrating but nothing which can't be fixed. Thanks for the comment. Have a wonderful day yourself :)
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Thanks for this.
Thank you