Disadvantages of Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing also has its downsides:

• It can take up to several months before you begin to see the results of your marketing efforts. Sometimes, you have to try out different marketing strategies before you can find out the one that works for you

• Sometimes, you may unknowingly promote a bad product that will bring down the level of your audiences’ trust and confidence in you. In fact, it may get to the extent that they begin to doubt the credibility of your content

• If you are unlucky to do business with a bad affiliate company, you may have your earnings or commissions denied. Such behavior may reduce your willingness to market other affiliate products

• You will find many other marketers marketing the same products as you and all competing to drive the highest traffic to their sites and generate the highest earnings. Sometimes too, because of the competition, it may be difficult to get the approval of renowned brands and businesses