Love it. Right on the money.
I used to be in the affiliate marketing business and saw hundreds of people with the skills, brains and talent to make a living at it who would quit early.
I could literally see the groundwork they laid and could tell they were right about to break through just as they were throwing in the towel.
It became a rule rather than an exception that most people quit right before they're about to make it.
Hang on just a little longer than you think you need to and you'll get there more often than not.
The other point about whales:
Out of nearly 50,000 affiliates only a little less than 1000 were actually doing the work necessary to earn real money. Nearly half those were actually making it. Many more than that were complaining about scams etc.
You need to have a better approach, a better idea and/or be willing to go further than 99% to make it to the 1%
Love the comment buddy so true. I do pretty well with affiliate marketing myself and when I talk with and look at other affiliate marketers I see people who a re much more skilled than myself in terms of better web designers, better e-mail marketers, basically people who have more and better skills than myself but who money wise aren't doing as well as I'm doing adn it's like you said especially with affiliate marketing its not something that happens overnight. I started dabbling in this stuff like back in 2009 didn't earn anything of any significance until probably 2013 and things didn't really start jumping off until the past year.
I think part of the process is developing skills, when I first started out I barely knew how to create a banner for a blog but over the years slowly learned to write, learned different marketing strategies, etc. Even once I developed some concrete skills I still had to learn for different niches what works and what doesn't work so it can be a long journey. I love affiliate marketing though and love passive income so it's totally worth it.
Great comment dude