Build your affiliate army

If there is any such thing as a natural career progression when you are involved in making money from your own online business, it probably goes something like this. When you first come online to make money, you very quickly realize that there are thousands of products for sale that will, in theory, teach you how to be a successful online entrepreneur. It is likely that you will invest some of your hard earned cash in a few of these products. Some of them will contain information that you can use, while others will inevitably be disappointing. However, while you’re buying these products, you will realize that you did so because somebody, somewhere sent you to a sales page where you read about the product, liked the idea, and got your credit card out.

Perhaps you even put two and two together and realized that it was not the product creator themselves who sent you to the sales letter page. In all likelihood, it will have been one of their affiliates, someone who was working on a freelance basis promoting that product in return for a commission paid on every successful sale. Realizing that there is good money to be made from being an affiliate, you begin to look into the positives and negatives of promoting and selling as an affiliate yourself. When you do so, you will undoubtedly come to the conclusion that there are far more positives to affiliate marketing than there are negatives from the individual affiliate’s point of view. In the first place, you can start marketing as an affiliate within a couple of minutes of finding a product or service that you want to promote. There is no need to carry any kind of inventory, and you do not need to create your own product either.