When I first started affiliate marketing, I was deathly afraid to lose money. My brain kept telling me that it was better to spend $10 on advertising and make $30 back (3x my money), rather than risking $500 to make $750 (1.5x my money). While the ratio is half as good, the reality is that I would walk away with $250 rather than $20 profit. The mistake that I continually make and need to work on is realizing that it is better to scale a campaign big time rather than keeping it small with high margins.

While many professional affiliate marketers repeat that you should stop reading about affiliate marketing and jump into it, I would disagree. Don’t get me wrong, I agree that you need to experiment with affiliate marketing, but I made the mistake of not knowing a thing before getting into it. I signed up for Google Adwords and Microsoft Adcenter before realizing the power of vouches. On the digitalpoint forums, you can buy a voucher with $50-250 worth of