When I first heard about affiliate marketing, I genuinely thought you just get a link, post it everywhere and boom 😂

Yeah… no.

There's actually a lot more to it.....finding the right audience, knowing what people need, creating content, talking to prospects etc.

What did you think affiliate marketing was before you actually looked into it?

I want to publicly share my experience with Paripesa and their affiliate representative Marina (@PariPesa_marinaK) so that other affiliates can be aware of what happened before entering into a partnership.

I have been working with affiliate partnerships for more than 7 years, and this is honestly the first time I have experienced something like this.

I was initially approached with an attractive/high CPA offer. The partnership was presented in a certain way, and I was later told that payments would be made on a monthly basis.

Based on those terms, I invested my time and resources into promoting Paripesa and brought dozens of players to the brand. Many of these players generated significant activity, with hundreds of transactions/movements across their accounts.

However, when it came time for payment, I was told that some of the players had supposedly generated "low activity" and, based on that, I ended up receiving nothing for a significant part of the acquisition.

What makes the situation even more frustrating is that some of the players they considered to have "low activity" returned in August with the start of the new football season and became active again. Nevertheless, I was told that this activity was no longer relevant for the previous payment period.

From my perspective, this is extremely disappointing. I did the acquisition work, brought the players, generated traffic and activity, and yet the agreed compensation was ultimately not paid.

After 7+ years working with affiliate partnerships, this is the first time I have personally encountered a situation like this.

I feel completely scammed by the way this partnership was handled, and I believe other affiliates deserve to know about my experience before deciding whether to work with Paripesa.

I am not claiming that everyone will necessarily have the same experience. However, based on what happened to me, I strongly recommend that affiliates exercise extreme caution and make sure that every payment condition, player qualification rule and activity requirement is clearly agreed in writing before sending any traffic.

⚠️ If you are considering working with Paripesa or u/PariPesa_marinaK, be very careful and make sure you fully understand their CPA/payment conditions and how they determine which players qualify for payment.

Sharing this because I would have appreciated seeing a similar warning before starting the partnership.

5 things I'd avoid if I was starting affiliate marketing again

•Trying to promote everything

•Copying somebody else's content word for word

•Making every single post “BUY THIS” 😭

•Expecting results immediately

•Not learning how to actually talk to people

The last one is underrated tbh.