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What should I do next?! Years trying to succeed in AM (10)

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I have spent very long time with affiliate/CPA marketing
I have very strong experience in digital marketing & ecommerce (full time job) but I couldn't make affiliate marketing to work
I know in depth about picking offers, using trackers... to optimizing ads
I have funds to invest in traffic sources, tried hundred of times, hardly had a campaign green in few cents

Been suffering a lot with pop and push traffic, I tried the recommended traffic sources, I faced a lot of too low quality traffic regardless of the name of traffic source, kept filtering those traffic sources till ending up with tiny green (placements) where they may make some cents a day and sometimes in minus cents/dollars

I don't want to get frustrated, I still like and believe in affiliate marketing and want to try something next and succeed

I said I should go next to Facebook ads, but it is getting more difficult, more expensive/competitive and FB/iOS coming everyday with rules blocking ads performance and tracking down, strongest features went away!
Also remember that FB is not friendly with affiliate marketing, they tend to work with stores/brands/products that you own, very probable to suspend affiliate accounts.. right?

Even I guess Native Ads may have similar challenges, but I guess I have to give it try before I close the chance of affiliate marketing

If I couldn't pass the small offers and friendly traffic sources, will I make results on the more expensive offers and less affiliate friendly traffic??

Anybody had similar situation like me? How did you pass it?
Please guide me what to do next?

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I think many of us have been in a similar situation... you think you're doing everything right, but it simply won't work.

I've been in the same situation couple years ago. Then all of a sudden it started to work. In my case there were a few factors that made it possible:

- I switched the main traffic source
- Finally found some solid offers
- I tested something that was booming at the moment - carrier billing stuff

When I started, I picked a popular offer and took it to to one of the biggest traffic networks and started testing. It worked more or less but I couldn't reach profits and when I did, it only lasted for a day or so. Somehow I thought that since that particular offer is so close to making profits, it will start working at some point... and I wasted a few months on it. It was a mistake on my behalf. If something doesn't work even after you gave it several rounds of proper testing, you have to ditch it and move on. Once I changed the GEO, tested more offers and also more traffic sources... it started to work all of a sudden.

Maybe you are making a similar mistake? Trying to make something work over and over, without changing the main components?

I also mentioned the "booming thin"... maybe you should focus on something else? Something that's not so saturated? Have you seen all the TikTok threads/posts lately? There is a lot of opportunity over there... it's still a rather new source, the competition is not as tough as on FB and as any new sources, they are not so strict YET. That might be a good option too.

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Maybe tell us what hundreds of tests you have being doing. Which traffic sources, which geo, which offers... And start a follow along putting the stats you got. So that more experienced members can have a look at it and give you tips.

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This is a good remark right here. Quite often people think they have tested a LOT when in reality it wasn't the case. What feels like a lot to someone, might be someone's else's daily routine.

When I was starting with paid traffic, it took hundreds of banners, dozens of LPs and quite a bit of offers to finally reach stable profits.

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Here are traffic sources recommended on STM that I tested, I didn't feel good about the quality of traffic: (pop/push)
PropellerAds
Zeropark
Popads

Geos I tested:
Pakistan, Indonesia, Curacao, Gambia, Surname, Armenia, Palatine, Thailand....

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mmmm..

seems interesting, TikTok seems my next

Would it work on the same usual way?

Creative (image/video or only video?) -> landing page -> offer page

What kind of affiliate offers can fit there?
Weight loss is ok?

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Thanks.
What verticals? How many offers? How many campaigns?

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mostly sweeps and mobile (as recommended in newbie lessons)
10s of offers
10s of campaigns

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Anything you wanted to add jeremie?

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Not really.

You tell us that you have spent very long time on affiliate marketing, test hundreds of campaigns, but when i ask you to develop more, you reply with the bare minimum. I understand that English might not be you first language, but with the level of info you provide, no one really wants to help because we can't see why you are failing.

I told you to start a follow along. I still think that's the best you can do to benefit from experts in this forum. Provide LOTS OF DETAILS (not just telegraphic style) so that you can get real feedback.

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