{"id":2665,"date":"2022-10-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themindedmarketing.com\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2022-10-03T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:15:09","slug":"affiliate-programs-that-are-bad-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themindedmarketing.com\/affiliate-programs-that-are-bad-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Popular Affiliate Programs That Are Terrible For Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disclaimer: This page may contain some affiliate links. If you click through and purchase an item, we may earn a commission<\/em>. Thank you for supporting Minded Marketing!<\/em><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re not a part of any affiliate programs, then you’re definitely missing out on some serious business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Affiliate marketing<\/a> is perfect for whatever platform you’re on and it is a great way to start bringing in some money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best thing about it is that it is both beginner-friendly and fairly easy to build up.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, not all affiliate marketing programs are made equal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you do some research into affiliate marketing, you’ll see that there are some names that constantly keep coming up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially in the blogging community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone will tell you to become an affiliate for Bluehost<\/strong>, GetResponse<\/strong>, and Tailwind<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what you don’t know is how difficult it can be to get a sale as an affiliate for these products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So to save you the headache and the tears, I’m going to go through each one of these programs and show you why they’re not a good place to start if you are a beginner<\/strong>, and what affiliate program you can replace it with instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are There Any Bad Affiliate Programs?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now the question may come up: Are there actually any bad affiliate programs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the answer is yes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these programs that I’m about to talk about are not \u201cbad\u201d per se. They’re just not as easy to breakthrough for beginners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there are other affiliate programs and platforms that are actually terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of these are CTA platforms which tend to be a bit scammy<\/strong>. They can send your viewers on endless loops just to get some gift certificate or discount. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as any other affiliate platform that is not 100% legit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you encounter any platform or program you are not sold on, the best thing to do is avoid it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Affiliate Programs Should You Avoid as a beginner?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to start this off with a big disclaimer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these platforms are professional, trustworthy, and secure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if you are a beginner, do not have a big platform, and don\u2019t get a lot of traffic, then these are the programs that are going to be hard for you to get sales from.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That does not mean that it is impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will find that as you start to grow, the sales will start to come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these programs are more suited for people who already have some form of traffic coming in already.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that I’ve made that clear, let’s look at what programs you need to avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. GetResponse Affiliate Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n