This post will explain this question to you: What is online or affiliate marketing? I can tell you right away it is something you might want to learn, why? Because it is not rocket science, anyone can do it as long as you can read and watch instructions, and have access to an internet connection.
It is also an awesome way to create your own job and become financially free.
It can actually go relatively fast.
Not overnight but over time, many are able to quit their 9-5 job in a 1 year period of time (or less, me included).
What is Online or Affiliate Marketing?
You might have heard that people are making a lot of money online and you have probably wondered how they do. I was in the same shoes not very long back ago. Do not make the mistake of thinking that there is a secret super “click one button program” and you are rich.
I do absolutely not blame you if you do, because how could we know something before we know it, right?
First, what is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is not a quick way to get rich!
It is also NOT some kind of pyramid scheme or MLM!
It is something you, first of all, have to learn, then you can earn.
I have made a (more in depth) 5-minute quick guide on a post not long ago that you could look at if you want more details.
You can check it out here.
You Can Sell Anything Online!
Affiliate marketing is great for many reasons, one very obvious advantage is that you can sell ANYTHING you want online and you DO NOT own the things you sell!
That means, no shipping, no costs, no taking orders, none of that!
How it works?? Plain and simple:
- You build a website (very easy nowadays, you can have one up in minutes)
- You send traffic (people) to the site,
- You then recommend something for them on your site,
- They look at what you recommend (you send them to another site)
- They buy something and you get commissions (you make money)!
It also means that whatever interest you might have, you can make a full-time business (and income) from.
This page shows you the basic steps
Here are just a few examples I can come up with
- ANY sport you like
- Computers
- Video games
- Books
- Dating advice
- Knitting
- Crocheting
- Mutual fund investing
- Trading (forex, stocks, futures, etc.)
- Any instrument
- Business coaching
- Health food
- Yoga
- Massage therapy
- Medicinal herbs
- Horse training (or any other animals)
- Fiction writing
- Brain science
- Songwriting
- Poems
- etc
Only the sky is the limit where you take that business!
It is one of the absolute best (and most profitable) ways to make money online and also the way most people start their online career.
So if you planning to make a living online I highly recommend you to start out learning affiliate marketing first, then you could move on to other online marketing methods.
Many times it leads to people start selling their own product/products.
Online marketing is affiliate marketing and many other marketing methods combined.
For example: video marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, etc.
It is The Best WAY (By Far) To Make Money Online (Or Offline)!
An online marketer (or internet marketer) knows all about affiliate marketing and I can tell you from the heart that when you have learned that skill you will start to see endless of possibilities to make money.
It will take time and effort to learn, but not more time than it takes to learn anything else worth knowing. Once you know it it will feel very easy and like you always have known it.
Close to zero investment needed!
It is by far the cheapest, fastest and easiest way to start your own business. This is well known by the ones who knows it. More and more people are open up their eyes to this and it is easy to see why.
Even if it is an opportunity that has been around for many years, it is the future.
Why?
Because more and more people are buying all kinds of stuff online for every year that goes. It is not something that will change in a near future. Every day there is well over 2 billion people online! This is (by far) the biggest market in the world.
Go ahead and learn this skill so you can have a piece of this billion dollar industry and secure your future.
I hope you found this post on online or affiliate marketing to be helpful and now you have a better understanding on what it is. If you got any questions I will be more than happy to answer them below!
I wish you success!
Thank you for reading
John
Owner of: StartMakeStopWaste.com
This is one of the very reasons why I love affiliate marketing. You can literally pick a niche of your choice, and you are able to make money off of it. Affiliate programs for nearly everything have been popping up over the past years which lets anyone recommend pretty much anything and we are able to make money off of it. Even the biggest blogs in the world are doing this. Once your site gets plenty of visitors, its jackpot.
I have recently got into affiliate marketing. Best decision of my life. I can’t wait until my site starts to really take off! Exciting stuff. It’s not a quick or easy thing to get into but I can tell already that it is definitely worth it. My site is just over half a year old I’ve also started a new one because I’m not too sure about the niche of the original site. The new site is going much better.
Great post. Really enjoyable to read.
Hannah.
Thank you Hannah! Yes, your first site (and/or niche) is most likely not going to be your last. It will get easier for every time you will start making a new site as it is something that you have done before.
Thanks for your comment!
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A very nice and informative article. I really like that you have placed “poems” as an example for selling, I have not seen any other article that has the same. I do believe it would be hard to sell, but it is different from what most affiliate marketers sell.
Thank you very much for writing the article. I have learned a lot and I will bookmark your site for later use 🙂
Thank you! Well, I actually placed it there because I heard of a couple that made a website about that and they made a killing from it, think they started their own email list and charged 1 dollar per month for sending out poems to their subscribers. They had thousands of subscribers, so that dollar turned into thousands of dollars every month.
ANY niche has potential, it is up to you.
Thanks for your comment!
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Hi John,
I came across affiliate marketing some time ago, but just three months ago I started to do something in this direction. I think that this business gives unlimited opportunities for hard workers that want to accomplish something and are done with working on a regular 9-5 job. What do you recommend for people who are new in this business?
You are absolutely right! It gives unlimited opportunities once you have learned a thing or two about how it works. I know you will make success of it if you want it yourself, only one stoping you is you 🙂
The absolute best place I can recommend is also free to try and it is this place: http://startmakestopwaste.com/the-wealthy-affiliat…
Hope that helps!
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Affiliate marketing and earning a income from home with your own business interest many people today, you are very lucky to earn a full-time income with your home business.
How long have you been earning a full-time income from home, how long did it take you to establish a full-time income from your business?
Where and how did you learn how to start your own online business, how much would it cost someone interested in starting their own business online like you
I would absolutely not call it luck. What I did is that I decided to go for it and not giving up. There is a proven method to get traffic to your site that I have followed, step-by-step training and instructions. It takes time and effort, and you are going to need patience as you (most likely) won´t make any money your first, second or third month. It can even take longer.
For me it took 3 months before I made my first money online, after that it just kept increasing. By month 6 I made my first $1,000+ month.
I learned everything (as a comlete newbie) here: http://startmakestopwaste.com/the-wealthy-affiliate-review-2016-insider-information