I hate how attorneys always see the bad in everyone and the pitfalls and risks with any venture. I'm not attorney and I don't even play one on TV, so I'll make this somewhat short and as sweet as I can to help you at least be aware of the affiliate marketing scams that are out there. While I've personally never lost sleep over affiliate marketing scams and the success of

Affiliate marketing / joint ventures / referral partner marketing is a great way to grow your business, yet effective affiliate marketing strategies are still misunderstood by most entrepreneurs and business owners to this day.

You only need "affiliate marketing for dummies" if you're NOT doing some sort of affiliate marketing. (You can

  Affiliate Marketing Programs are a great way to make passive, residual income with zero product development or staffing costs. In the image above are just some of the companies that have paid me affiliate commissions recently.