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Even sweet dreams can turn SOUR - My affiliate marketing story
By Ronnie Nijmeh comment 0 Comments access_time 2 min read

I want to share a story with you that I’ve never revealed before.

This all began over a decade ago.

You see… I got my start online in 1999 selling other people’s stuff.

My best-seller was a DVD movie backup app called “DVD X Copy” that I was selling as an affiliate — you may have heard of it, it was INSANELY popular.

The commissions were great – $50-100 a sale – and it was as easy as selling candy to starving kids. The buzz around the product was massive. And it was earning me literally thousands of dollars every month.
I was one of their TOP affiliates… I had my own affiliate manager and everything was like a dream.

But even sweet dreams can turn SOUR.

You see… the movie studios don’t exactly like the idea of people copying DVDs, so they sued the company. (Duh!)

A few months later, the legal bills piled up and the company went BANKRUPT.

Literally overnight, the thousands of dollars of unpaid commissions over the last two months went poof. 
I was never paid, and I knew I never will be.

That’s life in affiliate world:

The product owner is KING
…and the affiliate has ZERO CONTROL 
AND ALL THE RISK.

Don’t get me wrong… affiliate marketing is VERY lucrative. And I’ve never stopped promoting other people’s stuff. No way.

BUT –!

I had a BIG realization… If I wanted to REALLY survive online, I needed to smarten up.

No more relying on products I had no control over…

I needed my OWN product. 
Pronto.

That was one of the major catalysts for creating my own publishing business. Creating info products that I can sell as my own… then leveraging the power of affiliates to help spread the word.

I was now KING.
And you can be too… with your own product.

To your success,

Ronnie Nijmeh
PLR.me

P.S. Don’t think this AFFILIATE HELL can still happen?
Think again.

Two of my students are going through this ugly pain RIGHT NOW…  but thankfully they have a coach guiding them through their very first product.