Affiliate Marketers — You’re Making This BIG Mistake on Medium

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to earn some income, but not like this…

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Affiliate marketing is one of my favorite ways to earn some extra income online.

It’s part of my simple 2-step system, which is:

• Step 1 — Blogging/writing on Medium
• Step 2 — Mini Newsletter

Affiliate marketing squeezes itself in the middle because you can add affiliate offers to either of these steps — when it makes sense.

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I went hunting around Medium looking at how people market products, and I noticed a big problem.

This is a problem I’ve had in the past, so I understand why you’re doing it.

The problem is you’re not using the #1 key factor…

We’ll get to that in a minute.

But let’s first look at a few affiliate offers I saw scrolling around Medium.

(Note: I won’t link to the stories or the accounts of the not-so-good affiliate offers. I’m not trying to call anyone out and make…