Webster defines Affiliate Marketing as….oh I’m kidding. Who gives a F
what Webster says affiliate marketing is. Here’s exactly what
affiliate marketing is in a nutsell:
Affiliate Marketing = Making Money In Your Sleep.
That’s it in a nutshell, no matter what you’re selling. While you
sleep, people are purchasing DVDs that you have linked to on your DVD
deals website. While you sleep, people are going through your casino
links and martingaling at Blackjack. While you sleep, people are doing
shopping for their kids birthdays, thanks to your handy price
comparision website.
You are an affiliate for online stores and properties. You can be promoting Full Tilt Poker or Toys R Us; Amazon or Dell. Your job is to sell people on these websites or the products that they offer.
How you do that is up to you – it can be via simple banner ads, or
via informational and trustworthy websites. As an affiliate marketer,
you have to not just send people to these websites, but convince them to
purchase whatever is on offer at that website.
That’s what an affiliate marketer is. It’s not easy – believe me.
You don’t just “throw up a blog” and make money instantly. It takes
hours and hours and hours of work. Good affiliate marketers can work up
to 10 hours per day – there are times where I’ll work 16 hours per day
for a week straight.
It’s a hell of a lot of work. But when you wake up after a good
nights sleep, check your stat programs and see you made $1,000
overnight…
It’s all worth it.
