It sounds like you don't have much experience with being an affiliate.
An affiliate is a "marketer on commission". Much like a salesman on commission.
>Get too successful and chances are the company you have an affiliate agreement with will get tired of paying out large sums to you (sound familiar?) They will either kill your relationship outright, or replicate your business model first and then kill your relationship once it's taken hold.
This is like saying if a salesman gets too successful at his company, they will fire him and make the sales themselves.
I've never heard of this happening, and it would be idiotic to do.
A company gets essentially free money from their affiliates. They take no risk and get marketers that are much smarter than the ones that are on the job market working for them. This is a dream for pretty much every company.
Even Google has affiliate programs.
>Also, other affiliates will do whatever they can to sabotage your efforts.
This is like saying your fellow salesmen will sabotage your efforts.
Nope. Remember, people aren't against you, they are for themselves.
Affiliates WILL copy what you are doing if you're successful, but that happens in sales as well. And who cares? The best will still be the best because they will come up with better things.
But this is irrelevant, because if you do what the parent comment says, they can't copy you unless they take control of your site.
>and trust me it will if you have success
Why should I trust you? What experience do you have? It sounds like you're exaggerating something you read somewhere.
