Why I Turn Down Affiliate Deals

This is the real issue I see with affiliate marketing. I have had plenty of offers to run affiliates for trading and gambling applications, and I have turned all of them down. To me it does not provide real value.

Selling a book is fine, because you can trust that the book carries something a person can actually absorb and use. Trading and gambling are different. They are genuinely addictive, and without a proper understanding of the business, someone can lose their entire stake, even their whole retirement. Playing an iGame for entertainment is fine, and treating trading as entertainment is fine too, but it is not okay for people who are trying to earn from it as a day job. That is the first reason I stay out of affiliate marketing.

I have worked with Deriv partners to build an application on their Deriv API. They offer a 1 to 3 percent markup on every trade. I did it because I wanted to build real trading and iGame applications that are easier to use than their more complex system. But I still do not promote or market them, because I am not convinced people have a proper understanding of any of this yet.

That is why I lean toward education instead. I want to teach how these applications work, how to build them, and how to market them responsibly, for people in places like South Africa, Pakistan, and India, where there is already real understanding of these products. In Sri Lanka it is still very early, and there is a lot still to come into this market. I genuinely feel that.