After days of studying the forum, reading many successful and unsuccessful Follow Along posts, I decided to start my own.
I want to say that STM is the best affiliate marketing community I've ever seen.
With such support, almost anyone can achieve success.
My background: since 2015 I have been running other people's online projects, i know SEO but I have never worked with paid traffic. At the moment, I gave up everything to finally do what I have been dreaming about for 4 years - affiliate marketing.
Thanks for your attention!
Congrats for your decision,
and now Go Affiliate, Go 
I will try to make my Follow Along as useful as possible, I will be glad to any comments and tips!
Thoughts : I feel very motivated, I know for sure that I am on the right track.
Results:
1. Installed the Binom tracker on my domain (Why I chose Binom can be read below).
2.
3. ClickDealer - approved (after some questions).
4. Gotzha - approved (after some questions).
Now in more detail:
1.Tracker
Why did I choose Binom?
Binom has no restrictions on the number of events, which is important for the offers with which we will work in this tutorial.
Simple example: after completing the $ 1 Guide (Thank you Amy!) To launch the first company (I won’t share the results, but I’ll say for sure that I earned my first $ 2.8 in affiliate marketing)), for $10 I bought 28K impressions, respectively for $ 100 I will buy 280K impressions, for $ 400 - 500 I will reach my threshold in the 
Installation:
I am not a technically savvy person in configuring servers, but I will tell you that all the work, including the purchase and configuration of the tracker and domain, took me no more than 1 hour and was completed in 3 steps:
1. Using the affiliate link on the Binom website, I received $ 50 (!) for DigitalOcean server rental, after having paid $ 5 from my PayPal, I started the server according to the instructions I found on Google (easy-peasy!)
2. After that, I went to NameCheap and bought a .com domain (there is a legend that they are faster), with the protection of my data for 1 year (which is much cheaper than buying a domain with protection on GoDaddy), then I changed the DNS records of my domain (i took all information is on the Binom website)
3. Wrote in live chat on the Binom website. I never received such cool online support! I sent access from my DigitalOcean profile and after 15 minutes I received a login/password from my tracker running on my domain! You guys are AWESOME!
2. Approval of affiliate networks:
1. Mobidea approved me instantly, I immediately received an e-mail with confirmation.
2. ClickDealer sent an email asking him to write on Skype.
3. Gotzha wrote on Skype.
The questions were the same: what kind of offers are needed, what type of traffic do you use mainly, what traffic sources do you use, how long do you work with traffic, what affiliate networks has your average income per day already worked with. Also asked to tell a little about yourself.
Better prepare for these questions in advance!
I proceed to the next steps.
Thank you for reading)
good luck buddy. what vertical have you choosen to proceed?
First read Amy's tutorial in full to understand how much work will need to be done!
I am a very inquisitive person, and I like to study everything deeply, therefore, initially I delved into the study of spy tools. In Tutorial Amy spy tools described perfectly (Day 16), so it's important to read the tutorial in full before you read something yourself.
+ I decided to understand well how the tracker works, articles on reading:
1. https://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?44832-Light-bulb!-When-tracking-links-and-postback-URLs-finally-made-sense
2. https://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?17819-Want-To-UNDERSTAND-Tracking-Read-This-Now
Hello everyone! While going through Amy Tutorial, I came up with the idea to launch a project that will combine services&products for affiliate marketing in one place.
I am the administrator of the largest telegram affiliate marketing community in the CIS and I see that many people constantly need:
Goods:
- Accounts for setting up ads + logs.
- Proxy purchases (ip4, mobile 3g, 4g, etc.)
- Software (bulk mailer, chat-bots, browsers, etc.)
Services:
- Trainings;
- Distributions;
- Paid consultations on all traffic sources (FB / Instagram, Google, push, email, etc.)
- Freelance + creation of creatives for advertising (different format for each traffic source);
Therefore, I will try to run this project, now I am creating a telegram bot in which all these categories will be structured.
I will not leave AMY's training and will return to it as soon as I finish with the bot) I need to test this business idea, I think this startup has great potential.
Thanks for reading! Everyone has their own way to the top.
Best regards,
Anton
Good luck with your idea. If you can perceive bigger picture and fill empty spots in market, listen to people and provide them what they need and make a service with good reputation then you are on the good road to success.
Hi, Anton. Wish you luck with your undertaking. I believe that your commitment will lead to success
Best of luck with your new project @goaffiliate!
Please let me know when you're back and I'll provide guidance as needed.
In the meantime - best of luck with your startup! Sounds very promising!
(Sorry for the late reply - I've been at the AWA conference and then stayed in Bangkok for a little vacation.)
Amy
Following. Wish you all the best in you journey!
Thank you for your answer and for what you do and for beginners, @vortex!
Thanks to such people, there is a motivation to achieve success!
I will definitely come back and hope that I can contribute to the development of the community.
Best regards,
Anton GoAffiliate
I see that you have any interesting resources, I think we will be able to collaborate in the future.)
I have almost completed the development of my telegram bot, I will write here about the results.
Best regards,
Anton GoAfiiliate
One recommendation, focus on only ONE of the things.
Either the 40 days tutorial or the other project.
Working on both things simultaneous could risk to don´t put enough time/energy in both of them.
Better get one thing working properly instead of two half-baked things.
I'm back.
I have successfully launched dating on facebook. Also, now I am the administrator of the largest telegram affiliate community in the CIS.
Follow the updates!
Best regards,
Antilla
Great update, sounds good.
And from what I have seen there is a really active affiliate community in Russia or CIS in general.