How Big is Affilliate Marketing?

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An IM "guru" just claimed that 95% of new IM'ers start with affiliate marketing. What's your opinion? Is AM really that big?
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  • Profile picture of the author shaunybb
    sure it is


    About 14,400,000 results (0.42 seconds) for affiliate marketing!


    How about people like pat Flynn that make $70,000 a month from AM?


    Heard of amazon affiliate program? Made many millionaires....


    Do you go to a gym? They have an affiliate program!


    Six pack shortcuts on youtube! they sell affiliate products....


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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Originally Posted by shaunybb View Post


      How about people like pat Flynn that make $70,000 a month from AM?

      Yeah in the last year or so he is hitting well over $100K. And he has come out with his own products. But being an Affiliate is his main source of income including Bluehost

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  • Profile picture of the author fastlanesamurai
    Newbies see Affiliate Marketing as quick and easy money.

    It's what attracts them to Internet Marketing in the first place -- Quick and easy money. So, I wouldn't be surprised if most of them actually do start with Affiliate Marketing. Although, 95% is a bold claim.

    You can make more money when you sell more of your stuff. So it makes sense for people to start some sort of an Affiliate Marketing Program. Or to leverage an existing one. For instance, people in the Make Money Online Niche use JVzoo -- which is a huge affiliate platform. Shaunybb above gives you other good examples.
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    Affiliate Marketing definitely works and is how I make the majority of my money online.
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  • Profile picture of the author PPG19
    it think IM was a 16.6 billion $ in 2016
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  • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
    Just a heads up Affiliate marketing falls under MMO not IM that is for bricks and mortar who have website , Facebook , twitter and anyone who markets there stuff on the web
    just though would clear that up!
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  • Profile picture of the author PaulintheSticks
    Thanks for the responses guys. Affiliate marketing never attracted me. I've always made my money with my own products and services but now I'm considering targeting IM'ers and thought I would just do a quick test of the AM niche with some PLR.
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    • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
      Originally Posted by PaulintheSticks View Post

      Thanks for the responses guys. Affiliate marketing never attracted me. I've always made my money with my own products and services but now I'm considering targeting IM'ers and thought I would just do a quick test of the AM niche with some PLR.
      Sig spamming by Stealth not very cool getting the time wasters to post and they cant troll anymore you sick person
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  • Profile picture of the author Birdi
    Affiliate marketing is a $6.8 billion industry, alot of companies are really beigining to sign up to it.

    From health companies to clothing to amazon to gyms etc.

    It's a good way to start out aswell earning some income especially if you dont know how to create your own products.

    Alot of marketers just build a business based on Affiliate Marketing and can live comfortably. The opportunities is there.

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    • Profile picture of the author DRP
      Originally Posted by PPG19 View Post

      it thinj IM was a 16.6 billion $ in 2016
      Originally Posted by Birdi View Post

      Affiliate marketing is a $6.8 billion industry, alot of companies are really beigining to sign up to it.
      1) Why do you people cite the size of the industry as impressive? Even if it *was* a 20B industry...that's ******* tiny for an industry!

      2) A lot of companies are NOT entering AM...they're leaving! Why? Because they realize that it's BS and does little to contribute to their bottom line.

      3) AM is high risk for vendors because of fraud. It's all pipe dreams and unicorns. Get over yourselves.
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      • Profile picture of the author PPG19
        Originally Posted by DRP View Post

        1) Why do you people cite the size of the industry as impressive? Even if it *was* a 20B industry...that's ******* tiny for an industry!

        2) A lot of companies are NOT entering AM...they're leaving! Why? Because they realize that it's BS and does little to contribute to their bottom line.

        3) AM is high risk for vendors because of fraud. It's all pipe dreams and unicorns. Get over yourselves.
        Sorry i though we were talking about IM and not AM. But a 20 billion $ industry is not exactly a tiny industry...
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      • Profile picture of the author alxref
        Originally Posted by DRP View Post

        1) Why do you people cite the size of the industry as impressive? Even if it *was* a 20B industry...that's ******* tiny for an industry!

        2) A lot of companies are NOT entering AM...they're leaving! Why? Because they realize that it's BS and does little to contribute to their bottom line.

        3) AM is high risk for vendors because of fraud. It's all pipe dreams and unicorns. Get over yourselves.
        Can you elaborate why you think so?

        I work for a network that hosts offers for various brands and we are doing quite well, more people entering and more brands are picking this route as well. Fraud is an inevitable part of doing business online due to the new brick and mortar card protection schemes, pin and pay, emv etc. but fraud affects both merchants direct and through affiliation so that is not really a reason why to stop. If an affiliate is found to be generating only bad traffic you stop them. It is a huge industry.
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  • Profile picture of the author customerblast
    Affiliate marketing is a good win win situation, we get to promote products/services we could never get setup, and they get sales brought to them from us affiliates.

    We have affiliates actively promoting our digital marketing company and they bring a lot of sales with zero effort on our part - having your own affiliate program on a product/service you create is where you can really leverage the power of affiliates.

    But for those starting out in IM, its a very realistic and sensible place to start as you don't need your own product/customer service etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Insaneman
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    Yes affiliate marketing is big. Not only in internet marketing but overall, many companies uses it.

    However it isn't easy to start off with affiliate marketing, there's no push button stuff. You gotta work hard, the harder you work the more you'll get out of it.

    Or well you can also outsource it but when you do it the results will be much better.

    It wouldn't shock me if 95% start with affiliate marketing, but I don't really believe in that.

    I myself 6 years back as a "newbie" tried more then just affiliate marketing, I tried everything I could possible think of haha.

    Either way, yes affiliate marketing big, and 2, I am sceptical about the 95% claim.
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  • Profile picture of the author Harry Exper
    Well affiliate marketing is definitely most newbie favorite because they are often told they don't need a website to start making money with it.

    It is definitely up there along with freelancing as newbies favorite.
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  • Profile picture of the author RefuseToLose
    Affiliate marketing is basically the next biggest thing next to selling your own product...

    If you don't have a product to sell yourself, you sell someone else's for a commission.

    When you sum it up, everyone does affiliate marketing. You recommend a new laptop that was just released to a friend? That's technically a form of affiliate marketing (but you aren't getting paid for that of course).

    Affiliate marketing is just a way for people to refer someone else to a product and get paid for doing so... In that aspect... affiliate marketing is possibly one of the most important aspects of any business. It allows businesses to build a 'team' of people who only get paid for the results they deliver. Basically one step below organic word of mouth marketing every company dreams of having.

    But if you have enough affiliate marketers talking about you and your products, you will naturally create organic momentum for your product that spreads beyond your influencers (affiliates).

    I went a little overboard explaining affiliate marketing in its entirety but It's important to realize the benefits both side get from affiliate marketing and understand how important it really is.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randy McLean
    Affiliate marketing is huge. There are training sites like Affilorama that have 300,000 members all interested in becoming successful affiliates.

    Wealthy affiliate is another training site. So yeah, there is a huge market for this.

    It is a great way to start for newbies. You can focus more on content creation and marketing without getting bogged down with product development.
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    HUGE

    Great place to start! You don't have to worry about sales pages, product creation and support. Just refer a targeted lead and let the vendor do the rest. As far as the money goes affiliate marketing is really priceless. You can make as much as you want to...
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  • Profile picture of the author Shawn Dexter
    Many of these affiliate marketers make most of their money from "Influence Marketing".

    I made a video on this actually:

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  • Profile picture of the author Tomas Lodén
    Affiliate marketing is huge and making money is somewhat easy especially if you go outside the traditional markets like IM and finance..
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  • Profile picture of the author ppcmaestro
    Affiliate marketing is so huge that even if a lot of new marketers come up everyday, it won't be yet be possible to fulfill all the offers and their targets available online.
    Thinking about travel alone they say that only 20% of the affiliates are able to earn atleast $1-2k per month.
    So the potential can be compared to looking at the universe.
    Affiliate marketing is yet stuck to major English speaking countries. Yet the the other markets are just getting started with affiliate marketing. So there is a lot of scope yet and it's endless.
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  • Affiliate marketing is a huge industry and it has a huge market. Almost all sites that you see in SERPs when you search a term, is doing affiliate marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author PPG19
    He is just saying is small because he probably is not getting any market share from it...and when people are frustrated they say stupid things like that without having any kind of knowledge about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Djwillster123
    Its the easiest way to start out rather than directly going into product launching
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Originally Posted by Djwillster123 View Post

      Huge man/woman Huge
      Fixed that for you
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  • Profile picture of the author aizaku
    its pretty big.



    all you gotta do is connect the people with the aff product..



    you do that by pre selling them and building a relationship with them via email

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  • Profile picture of the author JosephVictory
    Affiliate marketing is a multi-billion dollar industry, you can make as much money as you can imagine. I make a full-time living from affiliate marketing .
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  • Profile picture of the author gluckspilz
    My opinion is a beginner should definitely start off with affiliate marketing.

    No products to create.

    No support to deal with.

    No complicated process.

    Just traffic & conversions.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
    Yes, as a whole affiliate marketing is massive. It's just a source of traffic... that people pay for upon obtaining a sale... rather than paying for the traffic upfront.
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  • Profile picture of the author bonusplus7
    yeah! affiliate marketing is growing like crazy!! and it will keep growing!!
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexGill
    Some people find it difficult to think about internet marketing outside of this forum and niche, but "performance marketing" is absolutely huge and a billion dollar industry across different verticals and traffic sources.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    well while lots of people say its a scam,

    I talked to a guy who is doing $40,000 per month. And yes, without any of his own products. So its no way a scam. Its about building an audience, and showing them stuff. That is all he does.

    Any big wig, will tell you its about building up and audience, and email list, and then helping that list, and plugging programs along the way.

    Infact my post above has helped countless people go from broke to make a full time income online.
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    • Profile picture of the author shaunybb
      Originally Posted by celente View Post

      well while lots of people say its a scam,

      I talked to a guy who is doing $40,000 per month. And yes, without any of his own products. So its no way a scam. Its about building an audience, and showing them stuff. That is all he does.

      Any big wig, will tell you its about building up and audience, and email list, and then helping that list, and plugging programs along the way.

      Infact my post above has helped countless people go from broke to make a full time income online.

      Good reply as usual celente, your post above??
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  • Profile picture of the author Get Mega Rich
    I think affiliate marketing is more valuable if you have an existing traffic source. Not sure why so may beginners would start right away with affiliate marketing. but then again, starting with no product, going the affiliate marketing route may be easier. Everyone has their own boat to row.
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  • Profile picture of the author Swapnil Tiwari
    Affiliate marketing is pretty huge for people who are just starting out and don't have their own products yet.
    Many people make their living out of selling other people's products...
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  • Profile picture of the author shmol
    Affiliate marketing is huge--and I would venture to guess that just about everyone who is anybody on line got started in affiliate marketing.

    Now, it is even better, because of amazon, all you have to do, in my opinion, is get people there through your link--and let them do the rest!

    Hope this Helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    I never thought about this before, but now that you ask. I am still not thinking or caring about it. Lets just say it is big enough for everyone

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  • Profile picture of the author djayturner85
    Affiliate Marketing is Massive and it always will be.

    That is all.
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  • Profile picture of the author amuro
    Originally Posted by PaulintheSticks View Post

    An IM "guru" just claimed that 95% of new IM'ers start with affiliate marketing. What's your opinion? Is AM really that big?


    I will say limitless.

    You can promote information products, physical products and CPA offers.

    You can even do e-book and kindle publishing.

    Or do videos.
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  • Profile picture of the author spartan14
    Well i dont know if that number its true but i see the big guys are playing with affiliate marketing with clickbank amazon .So i think this its the way to go
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  • Profile picture of the author brettb
    Affiliate marketing is bigger than any of us can imagine. Unfortunately 99% of people here only focus on trying to market $10 eBooks and stuff.

    I found out my old employer gave about $1500 commission on a sale and there are plenty of companies (with real offices and actual employees) making a decent income off the back of this.

    And the niche? Education.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    affiliate marketing is awesome DO it!! and do it well
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  • Profile picture of the author unlimitedoptions
    Affiliate Marketing is a huge business and a great one to start in. Many people who start a on-line business do start in AM because it's easy to get into, low cost to start, and can produce results quickly.
    It's a great source of income.

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  • Profile picture of the author sterlingmoss
    Affiliate internet marketing is very much alive and doing well. Huge industry. Tons of opportunities in this field!
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  • Profile picture of the author avemfly619619
    About 14,400,000 results (0.42 seconds) for affiliate marketing!
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