The phrase “affiliate marketing” means different things to different people.  To the vast majority, it is ’something to do with the internet’, to the vaguely aware it is ‘a way of earning money online – but I don’t really understand it’ and for yet others it is ‘one of those internet scams that doesn’t work’ and of course there are those who are thinking “affiliate what?”!

In actual fact, affiliate marketing is a fully legitimate way of making an income online.  It involves promoting someone else’s product for them and earning a commission for doing so.  These products are usually electronic products that can be downloaded by the purchaser after payment and so you, as an affiliate, don’t have to worry about delivery etc.  Commissions can be as high as 75% in some cases.   Affiliate marketing can be very lucrative and with some work it can be a way of ultimately creating a decent income.  The problem is that it is too often promoted as a get rich quick scheme, which is absolutely isn’t!

Taken seriously, and done properly, affiliate marketing can be an ideal way to work from home.  The problem is, how to do it properly?  Like everything that is worth doing, this is something that is worth doing well and that means, as always, that it is a lot of work.  Setting up an affiliate website that actually works and makes sales is a detailed and painstaking process.  However, once it is done, you will be left with a site that sits there and generates money for you, to the rate of somewhere between a few hundred dollars a month, up to about a thousand dollars a month. Read More→