Short YouTube monologue by Omar Zenhom assessing affiliate marketing: it remains viable but is less profitable than before. The speaker warns affiliates are "building on someone else's land"—they lack control over product, price, commissions, and program continuity—and recommends treating affiliate marketing as temporary "training wheels" while developing one’s own products and offers.
Is affiliate marketing still viable? Yes, but it's not as profitable as it used to be. Here's the thing. Affiliate marketing is absolutely fine, but you're always building on someone else's land, okay? You don't control the product, you don't control the price, you don't control the commissions or whether the program even exists. Tomorrow they can just decide not to give you any more commissions from tomorrow on. That's totally possible and happens all the time. So a better long term move is to use affiliate marketing as training wheels while you build your own products and offers.
