Affiliate Trouble

I would appreciate help from the vets. I know I am close to making money with affiliate. Not expecting to be rich.

I understand ads, different platforms. Blackhat methods like cloaking if needed, etc.

I gained a lot of experience by fucking up. Running straight to offer, various landers with different vsl, text versions, etc. Fake blogs.

Not one sale. I now know email marketing (or the likes) somehow is the missing link.

Is that all I am really missing?

It confuses me, with standalone high ticket, or even low ticket. Getting an email for trying to sell one thing. I am assuming for BH methods (adult, making money, etc.) to use GDN and can't collect an email, I could plug my models and such I suppose.

Am I way over complicating how easy this is? I admittedly am broke. Otherwise I would test/fail some more

Thanks

If you’re broke, focus on building a free traffic funnel first, then worry about scaling with ads later

Can you recommend how to build a free traffic funnel as I am interested as well.