Why Most People Quit Affiliate Marketing Right Before It Starts Working Affiliate marketing has a reputation for being simple. Sign up for a program, get a link, share it online, and collect commissions. At least, that is how it often looks from the outside. The reality is very different. Most people who start affiliate marketing never make it past the first few months. Some quit after a few weeks. Others spend months posting content, watching videos, trying different strategies, and seeing little to no results before deciding it does not work. The unfortunate part is that many of them quit right before things start coming together. The challenge is that affiliate marketing often looks like failure before it looks like success. The Invisible Work Phase Imagine planting a seed. You water it every day. You check the soil. You make sure it gets sunlight. For days or even weeks, nothing seems to happen. If you judged success only by what you could see above the ground, you might assu...