If you are looking for a guide that will explain affiliate marketing for dummies, you have come to the right place. We try our best to keep things simple and ensure you go away fully understanding a subject and also go aware with a clear path on how you can get started, if you so wish.
Affiliate Marketing is an awesome way of earning money online. But I often find that people try to overcomplicate the process and that is when we start to feel lost, when really it is really quite a simple premise. Let’s make sure you fully understand how Affiliate Marketing works?
How Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work?
There are 3 parties that are involved in affiliate marketing. The first party is you as an affiliate marketer. The second party is the seller of the product or service. The third party is the buyer of that product.
Let us use an example to break this down. Let’s say an affiliate marketer has a blog that is focused on a niche which is in the realms of fitness, let’s say losing belly fat. We will get into the need for a niche later.
So, this affiliate marketer has a blog that focuses on helping people lose belly fat. They have a ton of hints and tips, they also promote products or services that are relevant to that niche. It might be a kitchen gadget that makes preparing a particular recipe easier. That is where the affiliate bit comes in. The affiliate marketer links their blog post about that gadget to a marketplace such as Amazon through an affiliate link.
The readers of that blog read that particular blog post and decide they want that gadget as it makes preparing that particular (health shake) recipe easier to do and so they follow that link to Amazon and buy the product.
The blog owner has just earned a commission through affiliate marketing.
That is the simple premise behind affiliate marketing. You promote products and services and receive a reward or commission for introducing a buyer.
It is a method that benefits both the buyer and the seller as it reduces the costs of marketing which can be an expensive business and Amazon actually launched in this way. When Amazon first launched it was a small online book store and rather than spending money on advertising, they reached out to their buyers to promote their books to others with the reward of a percentage of the sale price.
Now Amazon is the biggest marketplace in the world and still follow that same model but cover a whole lot more than just books.
Related Post: How to Make Money with the Amazon Associates Program
How Do They Track Your Sales?
This is the point where people can overcomplicate affiliate marketing. You see it involves tracking cookies and if you do not know what a cookie is, this is where it can seem like it is an alien language.
Let’s describe how a cookie works, and then we can explain how they track your sales.
A computer cookie is a small file sent from a web page to your computer to be stored in your web browser. The main purpose of this file is to help the web page keep track of your visits and activity. That doesn’t always mean a bad thing. Think about if you do your online shopping online, a cookie will help keep track of the items in your shopping basket. Without cookies, this couldn’t happen.
If you stay logged on your social media, cookies also help keep you logged in.
So, how does that work with affiliate marketing. Well, when you sign up with an affiliate network or Amazon, you are given a special link that you use when you are promoting these products and services.
When that reader read that article and decided to buy that kitchen gadget we were discussing earlier. The blog post would have had a link that went straight to the sales page on Amazon. That link would have had a signature in it that identified that it was you who introduced this buyer to Amazon.
You might be asking how cookies came into this. That buyer might not buy that product you recommended but explored Amazon a bit and bought a similar one. The cookies would have meant you still get the commission for the sale. Amazon offers 90-day links, so if they go through your link. Have a look at the product and decide they will look later, as long as they do actually buy it you can get the sale.
Let’s Explain A Niche
So, affiliate marketing works by you introducing someone to a product or service and receiving a commission for doing so, 
but you will notice earlier I mentioned that you would need a niche.
Whilst the premise of Affiliate Marketing is really that simple, it isn’t enough to just sign up with Amazon and creating a blog website and promoting a load of products…
If you start too broad, you will find it much harder to get started and find any success. You need to target a specific niche, that is very focused and will give you the better edge to get started with Affiliate Marketing.
What Is a Niche?
A niche is a narrow segment of the market with which to target. What the hell does that actually mean??
The best way to pick a niche and actually understand what a niche market is by going onto Amazon. Picking a category and then see what the sub-categories were and click on one, then keeping doing that until you cannot go any further. That is how narrow you need to go to start a niche.
If I picked Men’s Grooming, there are six sub-categories:
- Shaving
- Skin Care
- Body Care
- Hair Care
- Dental Care
- Kits & Gift Sets
But those are still too broad for a niche. Let’s pick Shaving and then this brings to the following sub-categories:
- o Manual Shavers
- o Electric Shavers
- o Groomers & Trimmers
- o Pre-Treatments
- o Aftershaves
- o Accessories
In that category, those would be my starting points. But honestly, we could go narrow if we wanted to and you could target disposable shavers for example.
When thinking about your niche, you want to target something you already have an interest in and then target as narrow a niche as you can. You will expand later on into the broader market, but the first stage of your business will be getting your name out there. That is why we need to target a niche.
Always start with a tiny segment of the market to improve your chances of getting it working right and then you can start getting broader as you have built up your authority.
Become an Authority in Your Niche
This is an important one to making Affiliate Marketing work for you. Think about it, would you buy something if you didn’t trust the seller, the promoter, the marketplace??
The first stages of an affiliate marketing business are showcasing yourself as an authority or expert in your chosen Niche.
Why am I going to trust you and follow your suggestions… that is because you are trustworthy and know your stuff.
That is the place you want to get yourself to after choosing your Niche.
That is also why we suggest you pick a niche that you actually know a lot about or are willing to learn a lot about and it is much easier if you like the niche too.
Imagine if I started a blog on women’s fashion… Yeah, I struggle with men’s fashion let alone making people believe I know anything about women’s fashion.
Let’s Confirm your Understanding
You start off by selecting a niche, a tiny segment of the market. It is based on an interest or passion you already have with that topic and can show some knowledge about it to others. You are willing to learn more about that topic and will start on your journey to becoming an authority (expert) in that niche to help people who want to understand that niche too.
You don’t need to be an expert writer, as the art of affiliate marketing through a blog is that it is a conversational type article. If you can explain it to one of your friends, then you can definitely succeed within affiliate marketing.
What Next…?
People get put off the idea of affiliate marketing when they learn they need to learn how to create a website or start
blogging or anything technical as they are not that great on the laptop or computer. This is where I can come in and help.
Before I started my first blog, I didn’t have a clue on how to do anything like create a website. I didn’t even know what Affiliate Marketing was. But I was looking for a way to earn money from home.
I stumbled onto the topic of Affiliate Marketing and had a number of the worries that you may be thinking right now…
But I found something that made it simple and easy to understand, I could learn everything I needed.
All I needed to put in was TIME & EFFORT.
It doesn’t matter what your skill level is with a computer or that you are not that great at writing or social media. Because I got expert help and support from day one.
If you are willing to put in the time and effort, like I did and spend time learning and following the steps that are involved, you will shortly have the following:
Your Own Affiliate Marketing Website
What I am offering is a training platform that can help anyone of any skill level create their own affiliate marketing business that will earn them money online. You will gain access to a community of like-minded entrepreneurs that will be on hand to help you at any step to ensure you understand what to do and how to do it. You will also gain access to my help and support at any time.
The only thing that will stop you succeeding at Affiliate Marketing is you telling yourself you cannot do it.
I know plenty of affiliate marketers who are earning full-time wages from their businesses and some of them didn’t know how to go on Facebook before they started.
What Am I Offering?
I am offering you access to a training platform that has transformed the lives of thousands of wannabe Affiliate Marketers. It offers World Class Training, Access to Websites & Expert Help and Support and what is more you get to join for FREE.
A Starter Membership is absolutely free, with no catch. It allows you to fully explore the platform and start your affiliate marketing business.
Think about it, by the end of lesson 4 you could have your own affiliate marketing website in your chosen niche. It will be fully optimised to be found by the search engines and all you would need to add from that point is content.
Everything involved with an Affiliate Marketing business can be taught and learned and Wealthy Affiliate will be there to help you at every step of the way.
3 years ago, I didn’t even know what Affiliate Marketing was and now I am sharing my knowledge to help others find genuine opportunities within Affiliate Marketing.
If you want to start your own affiliate marketing business with expert help and support, then I highly recommend you sign up for free below. Just click on the banner below and start your own affiliate marketing business for free.
If you still have any questions or want to learn a little more before committing anything, I totally understand. But I ask that rather than worrying about it ask me any questions in the comments below and I will definitely respond to you with an answer.
Good Luck with Your Journey within Affiliate Marketing, whichever direction you decide to go.
I wanted to know and learn about affiliate marketing and I am so glad that I found this article. This article had everything I needed to know about affiliate marketing.
I learned what is affiliate marketing, how it work, what is a niche and a lot more about affiliate marketing,
This article just made my start up for affiliate marketing easier. Thank you so much for sharing this article.
Hey Sujandar,
I am glad that you found the article useful. Good luck with your future endeavours. If you ever need any help, you know where to find me.
thanks
John
WOW your page is what a lot of beginners need. It’s straight to the point and it tell it how it is. A lot of people find marketing very hard and don’t really see the value in doing so. Is there a place that you can get the training to learn? What would you recommend?
Hey Claudia,
thanks for checking out my guide. My recommendation is Wealthy Affiliate, their training is designed so that anyone can understand it and take action from it to become whatever they want to become with regards an online business.
I have researched many over the last couple of years and have found none that come near to WA when it comes to value.
hope that helps
John
Hi John. Great in-depth article on affiliate marketing. Many people cringe when they hear the term–partly because they don’t understand what it means and partly because it sounds like selling. When really it boils down to providing quality information to people looking for it! The beauty of Wealthy Affiliate is that you can create your online business part-time or full-time and Amazon is a great way to start making commissions. You provided a great outline to anyone curious about creating their own online income. Thanks for the great information. Alanna
Hey Alanna,
thanks for checking out my guide. It does seem to be a term that puts people off because they assume they have to be great sales people. But you are right, it is about helping people that is where the real affiliate marketers bear fruit.
Wealthy Affiliate is an awesome supportive platform that can help anyone succeed.
thanks again
John
I like how you explained the concept of narrowing a niche. Too many people don’t realize that a too-broad niche will give them a website that is buried way deep in the search rankings. Someone mentioned an interesting idea when looking for niche keywords. He said that you can find lucrative “back doors”. For example, electric razors. There are still probably a lot of review sites with fairly high authority that would bury a new site. So maybe target electric razor repair. Embed some youtube videos, offer links to some replacement parts, etc. The suggest it might be time for an upgrade to a new, far better model. Of course, you would have a set of recommendations for new electric razors. This isn’t a perfect explanation, but I hope you get the picture.
Hiya,
thanks for adding value to the post. I totally agree with you, there are always opportunities and your electric shaver repair niche is just that a niche. With the right training and keyword research, you will find plenty of opportunities out there. You don’t have to end up with just one.
thanks again
John
I must say that 2 years ago I was thinking about how affiliate marketing is some big science and that it would not be possible to make online business with this but I was very wrong. I can freely say that affiliate marketing is the most popular way to earn online and more and more people are doing that or they think to start with.
Your explanation is honest and I could not find anything that could be not a truth. I encourage all people that after reading this topic, they give a chance to affiliate marketing and they will not regret.
Hey Daniel,
thanks for checking out my guide. It did seem the same to me when i first came onto the idea. It seems so alien to what i had thought earning money online was. But it works and there are many WA members who prove that it works.
As long as you put in the time and effort, you will see it for yourselves.
thanks Daniel
John
Hey John,
That’s a pretty good explanation of affiliate marketing. I was doing some research to write a similar article on my blog and I will absolutely link back to you.
One question though…
I thought that the Amazon cookie was a 24-hour one and not a 90-day one. Am I wrong?
BTW, this Wealthy Affiliate seems kind of cool, so I’ll definitely give it a go.
Looking forward to your reply,
Xaric
Hey Xaric,
thanks for checking out my guide. To clarify, the 90-day bit is if it has been saved into the basket. You are right, the normal cookie is 24-hour. I will go back and clarify it in the post.
thanks
John
Thanks for explaining affiliate marketing in a down to earth step by step form for beginners I truly loved the way you broke down the explanation I could understand every bit of it from the definition to the end and happens to be that I am already a wealthy affiliate premium member, Thanks for making it easy for all beginners out there.
Hey Seun,
thanks for checking out my guide and confirming what I had hoped that it was understandable. Nothing needs to be overcomplicated and this is often when people spend money when they don’t need to – because they do not understand it.
thanks again
john
I’m so glad I came across this post! I’ve been researching affiliate marketing quite a bit lately, and have started building my own website. After reading your article I just realised my niche is waaaay too broad! I totally agree that affiliate marketing takes a lot of time and effort, as well as persistence. I’ve been working on my website relentlessly and have wanted to quit many times. What do you do if you ever get overwhelmed by the whole thing (if you do, that is)? I’m at that point now where I’ve come pretty far and am proud of it, but am also aware of how much MORE work I have to invest in it. I guess I’m just wondering if I’ll ever get a bigger audience. Which social platform did you find most success on?
Love, light & cuddles
Rei xx
Hey Rei,
thanks for checking out my guide. When you become an authority you will expand into that niche that you say is too broad, so you might keep the niche broad but with your content focus on specific segments until you get to the point where you are broader – when you have the traffic and audience too.
Stick with it, you will see the traffic coming in if you are doing effective keyword research and creating engaging content. WE always think it will come sooner than it does, but keep going and you will start to see the outcomes of all your hard work.
There are times when i feel it isn’t going to happen, but then i remember why I am doing this. To give me more time with my family. Keep reminding yourself of why you are doing this and setting yourself daily and weekly goals helps too.
Rather than thinking, I haven’t got an audience yet. Think have I achieved my weekly goals, if not I need to work harder. Seriously, if you get your mindset into that. You will soon realise “Wow, I have traffic and this is working”.
And, no matter how much you put in, there will always be more that you can do.
Social Media is a funny business, to be honest I am seeing most success with Instagram. It is definitely pulling people to my blog. Most marketers are suggesting Instagram is the one to focus on this year and that Instagram Stories is something to use.
Hope that helps, and I am sure you will get there. All the best
John
This Article Pretty much explains everything under the sun in Affiliate Marketing..And the Fundamental of how one should start,,
I think anyone that reads this should be able to jump right into affiliate Marketing right away with the foundation Knowledge and start seeing success..
I am Currently in the affiliate Marketing niche Myself And I have alway tried to explain affiliate Marketing like this in plain english where anyone can understand but for some reason its a bit hard for me…
Keep up the good work…
Hey Micheal,
thanks for checking out my guide. Keeping it simple is the perfect way of helping people grasp a concept. If you are finding your explanations hard the best advice I can give you is to write it as though you were telling it a friend or family member.
You can always test it on a friend or family member in the beginning. Did they grasp it? If they did you know your audience will. I will also say that when writing an article you are writing it for one person. You may have thousands of visitors, but it needs to feel personal to each and every one of them. They need to feel like you are talking to them and not a generic group of people.
Hope that helps
John
Finding affiliate marketing has been a lifesaver for me and when I began I knew nothing about website construction! Before jumping in the ring of AM I haven’t touched a computer in 6 years and found myself lost. Luckily I found the exact same program you are speaking of and now I have 2 sites up and running.
For the price point being asked I found this to be a very valuable program.I am still not an expert but with this platform I am very comfortable in building websites for the purposes of marketing! Great post and keep up the good work!
Shannon
Hey Shannon,
thanks for checking out my guide and offering your experiences. Wow, 6 years without touching a computer – a long time. But it just shows what we are on about. Anyone willing to learn can prosper with Affiliate Marketing.
I am glad you are achieving your goals. Good Luck to your future.
John
This is a great nuts & bolts breakdown.
I’ve always been a big fan of searching for “for dummies” type articles. When I need something explained in a language I can understand I need to hear from people that understand my struggle ha!
To your other readers out there I would say…don’t fear becoming an “authority” in your niche! I say that because I made that mistake and it was a huge setback. Now, I know what I’m capable of and I’m seeing it through. I just had to believe in myself as much as others believed in me.
Thank you John for the great summary for beginners. It’s people like you that help dreams become a reality!
Hey Fyre,
thanks for checking out my guide. I appreciate your comments. An authority site could put people off, I know. But it is much easier to achieve than people think.
As soon as you are willing to learn everything there is to know in a niche, you have started the journey to becoming an authority.
thanks again
John
Thanks for bringing this important piece to us. Its a brief review on totality of affiliate marketing. I’m new in my affiliate entrepreneur journey. I’m happy that wealthy affiliate is a good place to start. I have already started my training and have chosen my niche which I think I can do well with. The live support is a huge encouragement. This is the beginning of 2019 and I think its better one chose a profitable way.
Thanks for this beautiful piece.
Hey,
thanks for checking out my guide. Glad you found it useful. I wish you luck with your affiliate marketing business. Wealthy Affiliate will definitely help you achieve it if you follow the training and advice.
Thanks
John
Hi John I’m glad to have come across this article. I’ve been trying to break into the affiliate marketing world and was always wondering how you could become very successful if you had a niche that was very specific.
Reading through your post, you mention that you start very specific in terms of a narrow niche but, once you’ve established in the market as an authority, you can then start working your way out through a broader range in the same niche. This is very insightful to me.
Something that you wrote stuck out to me. It says you’re finding success in affiliate marketing but were not very computer savvy to start. With that in mind, I’m wondering how long it took you to find success and what success means to you? Did you set a certain goal and meet it for instance?
Thanks for taking the time to share this information and also share some of your personal journey.
All the best, Kevin
Hey Kevin,
thanks for checking out my guide. The narrower the start the easier it is to get noticed by the search engines, but as you get that exposure you can definitely start branching out as long as it is relevant to your traffic and audience.
You are right, Success is subjective. One of my first goals was to prove it could work, so could I get a sale. As you get sales, you want to expand on that. I am at the point where I have proved it works and now need to expand on it to make it reach my ultimate goals.
Everyone wants to be earning thousands, but before that comes the point where you earn your first dollar.
All the best
John
Your post about Affiliate marketing is the best I ever read. You answer and explain the right questions, so if someone wants to know how Affiliate marketing works, will learn the basics.
As a Wealthy Affiliate member I have to tell that this is the best program to start to learn and to create your first blog. I really liked your post, this is very helpful. Thanks
Hey Gno,
thanks for checking out my guide. Glad you found it easy to read and follow, that was exactly what I was going for.
Wealthy Affiliate is indeed a great training platform and those looking to get started with affiliate marketing will definitely find it very helpful.
thanks
John
This article, I think is affiliate marketing made simple, I have seen and read a lot of write up but they make it look like something difficult. I joined Weathy Affiliate and my whole story and thought about affiliate marketing changed. The training is comprehensive and the community is friendly and always ready to help
Hiya,
thanks for checking out our post! I think anything can be made to sound either simple or complicated. The reason some will make it sound complicated is to get you to pay for some expensive program that will apparently do everything for you.
We chose to write a simple guide, because affiliate marketing is simple. But learning something effectively to be successful does require some training, but that training does not have to be overly expensive.
Wealthy Affiliate is our top recommended program because they are reasonably priced for such a powerful training, support and tool. Literally providing everything you might need to get started with the fact they also include a free starter membership means they want you to fully understand what you are getting into.
That is the difference between someone introducing affiliate marketing as complicated so they can SELL you something…
And the simple process where they offer HELP via an excellent training platform that you can check out for FREE…
All the best
John
For me affiliate marketing is the best way to make money online.
I have been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for about 1 year and here I have learned the secrets of becoming a successful entrepreneur. My main goal is to give up my daily work and work from home. Affiliate marketing can make you earn a lot of money online and the platform that gives you all these chances is Wealthy Affiliate. Good luck to everyone in this online industry!
Hi,
thanks for checking out our guide! We totally agree with your assessment of Wealthy Affiliate. Getting the right training and support is the major difference between success and failure!
All the best
John
Wow great background information on affiliate marketing here. Things like niches and cookies might have someone who is thinking about getting into affiliate marketing in a tizzy, so it really helps to have great background info like this. Your training platform Wealthy Affiliate is an outstanding reference, as it is a tried and true platform with one of the best online communities out there. All who are reading would do well to check out your link. Great post and keep up the good work!
Hey,
thanks for checking out our blog. Affiliate Marketing is a great route to making money online and is growing everyday. Training is essential with anything new, and we firmly believe Wealthy Affiliate can help anyone who is serious about making money online.
The training, support and tools that Wealthy Affiliate offer are second to none and is our top recommended program for a reason!!
All the best
John
Even for someone who is smarter than a dummy, this has some helpful information about how affiliate marketing works. It’s an easy concept to understand with your visual aids to help explain the process. Thanks for breaking down the components so that affiliate marketing is easy for everyone to understand — even dummies.
Hi Aly,
I think there are a lot of people who think affiliate marketing is really complicated and they want it explained simply, but the reality is it is a simple premise and that also makes people wary. They think there is a trick or something that makes it work. It seems too simple to just create great content with a little bit of keyword research and then rinse and repeat. But it is that simple…
Glad you found some other useful information too…
All the best
John
Today I was trying to explain affiliate marketing to a friend of mine though I haven’t really ventured into it and the greatest question we had was which niche to choose. I have tried about 3 niches and somehow ended up giving up on them for some reasons. Thanks to you I really got to understand how best I can pick a niche which isn’t too wide and too competitive. Given time and consistency I have realised that affiliate marketing can be a real good long term source of income.
Hi Donny,
sometimes your first niche is not right, and it can sometimes be you are picking a niche because you think it is going to be profitable and not because it is something that you will enjoy.
Working on something that you don’t enjoy is one of the biggest reasons people fail. People will always suggest that you choose weight loss or keeping fit as a niche because there is a huge audience and there is. But if you are not really that interested in it, how can you create content.
There is only one path for any niche to be successful and that is by creating high-quality content, but if you run out of ideas or don’t really have much to write about that niche – how can you create content?
No content means no authority, means no traffic, means no sales.
That is why we always suggest a hobby or passion, as you will always want to learn more about your niche and have something to offer. I could target formula 1 as I love it and engage in it so far, I would probably have to go down the paid ads route rather than affiliate marketing, but at least it is a niche I know there is an audience and I could write something about it throughout most of the F1 season. But I chose motogp, I would be completely lost and it would be the wrong choice.
My advice is to pick something that you love and could talk about all day without getting bored, that is the right niche to pick. Think about it, if you enjoy it I am sure there are other people in the world that enjoy it too and would like to learn more…
Hope that helps
John
Thank you for your post. It is useful for me. I started my online business for a while now and are actively building my affiliate marketing business. It is hard to make sales and I think the critical factor is to attract audiences.
I agree with you that in order to build trusted audience base, you need to become an authority in your niche. It is the first stage of an affiliate marketing business.
To reach this goal, you need to pick a niche that you know, love and are wiling to learn a lot.
It is kind of you sharing this useful information. With this guidance, we could achieve success of our affiliate marketing business with easy.
Hi Anthony,
stick with it, you will achieve your goals. Building an authority in your niche will happen. It just takes time and some high quality content. Once you are getting traffic regularly, it will happen.
If you need any help, let us know
All the best
John
Thank you for publishing this amazing and very simplified article on Affiliate Marketing. I am going to have it bookmarked and use it for Reference later. If I had stumbled into this page a couple of years ago, I wouldn’t have enountered some of the difficulties I struggled with. You have cleared every worries about Affiliate marketing. Regards
Hey Isaiah,
thanks for checking out our blog! Glad you have found the information useful, hopefully you can get back on track.
If you ever need any help, let us know
All the best
John
Thank you so much for sharing such an excellent article with us. Your article was very interesting and informative. I have got a lot of information about affiliate marketing. I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for two years, so I need to find many guidelines that I need to be successful in affiliate marketing. After reading your article I have received many suggestions on how I can be successful with affiliate marketing and I think being a new platform is a popular platform for affiliate marketing. As I read your article, I learned many things that will be very useful to my affiliate marketing. I am very pleased to receive your suggestions. I think other people like me will benefit from receiving your suggestions. I will share your website on my social media so that my social media friends can benefit from the valuable information you provide.
Hiya,
thanks for checking out our blog!
glad you found our article useful, if you have been struggling for a while it can be hard to get yourself out of the rut, especially if you have been receiving some bad advice (which we hear a lot). Hopefully our guidelines have helped you, but if you need to reach out for help, we are always here to help!!
All the best
John
i am very sure that with the right explanation anyone would be able to understand how affiliate marketing works. the way you have explained it makes it so easy as it is explicit and clear. i would like to share this article with some of my friends. it is really helpful
Hi Benny,
I think at times, the simplest of things are the hardest as people go is it really that simple. But the other side to the argument is that to earn money online you have to invest a lot of time and effort into something that will not earn you money straightaway. Many people cannot grasp that concept, hence they believe it to not work.
Affiliate Marketing requires a business mindset, not an employee mindset. An employee works for an hour, gets paid for that hour. It might not be very much money for that hour, but they do get paid.
An entrepreneur who treats it like a business works for free at the start, as they are building a long-term income plan. Once the money comes in, they are laughing and earn much more than they would as an employee. But many people cannot accept not getting paid for the work they put in.
That is why, anyone who wants to earn from affiliate marketing needs to understand two things:
1. It will earn you a lot more money than being an employee
2. But you need to understand that money will not come straightaway, you are going to have to work for free before it will do that.
So, whilst the premise of promoting other people’s products is a simple one and anyone can understand that. The bigger thing is that people understand that it might take a month, three months or maybe six months before it will give you a return on your effort.
The people will have helped via Wealthy Affiliate are doing that, but it takes time. I am not saying it isn’t enjoyable, we love doing what we do as we love helping people. Earning a living from a hobby or passion is the ideal business idea and working to suit our lifestyle is also a huge benefit of affiliate marketing. But it will cost you something in the early stages and that cost is your time. If you can commit to that, you will find that affiliate marketing is simple and anyone can try it, but you will need to the right mindset…
All the best Benny
John