The True Power of Affiliate Marketing

“If you are like 99% of the working population, your life, for five days out of the week, is constrained by the job you do and the company you work for.

Trying to find the motivation to go to that job probably seems worse on cold winter mornings.

However, in some respects every day is dedicated to that particular company; you’re spending your life helping to make a CEO and a few wealthy stockholders even more wealthy – this can be so frustrating and to a lot people it feels there is no way out.

You have a family, a mortgage payment every month, car payments due, and to quit that job and pursue something else can be terrifying.

However, if you have even a little business aptitude, by setting your sights on a goal and properly applying yourself, it is possible to change your life. Try to imagine getting up in the morning (at whatever time you choose), having the time to get breakfast for your kids, dropping them off at school, coming home and exercising.

Then deciding what project to work on that particular day and being able to do it from the comfort of your living room, bedroom, wherever, basically running your life in the way that you want to.

Until a few years ago, this was probably was a ridiculous dream for most people.

The power of the Internet means that you can run your own business and reach a mass market (and I mean mass market – there are billions of people in the world who use the Internet and millions in the US alone – that’s a huge range of potential customers).

Even if you do not have a product or service to sell, affiliate marketing means that you can run a business promoting other peoples’ products online.

The beauty of this is that the start-up costs are minimal, and if you master the skills needed, there is an immense amount of profit to be made. I am not going to pretend that this is a get rich quick scheme.

The truth is that it will take hard work in the beginning. However, in honesty, that is a good thing – if you are able to put in the hard work, then you are already ahead of 90% of your competitors that are just looking for an easy and quick way to make money.

After you have put in the initial work, the income you generate is what we call “”passive income“”– this means that, after you have done the hard work to begin generating the income, you will continue to earn it semi-automatically.

There are many ways that you can make money online using affiliate marketing, but the main two are through search engine optimization, which is based around developing websites or other web properties.

After which, you will put in work to try to raise the websites to a high position in Google searches. By placing advertisements and affiliate links on your website, you can generate income.

The other main way is again to create websites (usually around a certain product or group of products), and then use an advertising system such as Google AdWords, to have traffic directed to your site.

This has the potential to quickly generate income because within a few hours you can have your website appearing at the top of search pages. In reality, most affiliate marketers will use both methods.

Now is the time to begin learning about affiliate marketing and to begin the work on your own marketing business. The sooner you do this, the sooner you can leave the corporate world. It is a dream to most people, and one that they will never fulfill. However, it does not have to be just a dream and it is within your reach; do not let fear of failure prevent you from achieving your goals.”