the beginner level of affiliate marketing is literally publish content and Link people over to offers the intermediate level is where you publish content you link people to offers but you also grow your email list and that brings us to the advanced approach and this is where you as an affiliate marketer go out and you create your own courses when you start to create and sell your own courses you have the ability to run paid ads and scale your offers and scale your customer list without really going out of pocket what's the best metric for you as a digital entrepreneur to know when someone knows you likes you and trust you it's when they're willing to pull out their credit card and purchase from you and the truth is when someone's purchased from you and they actually enjoyed the process they enjoy the product they then trust you at that point in time more than ever so their willingness to take you up on your product recommendations as an affiliate goes up drastically