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Is The Majority Of Your Income From Affiliate Marketing?

by blackhawkup Banned
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I just had a thought...

I was wondering how many people on the warriorforum have actually built Strong, Solid Businesses based around the affiliate marketing model...

Of course product creators earn a sizeable income as affiliate marketing..(in my business product creation opens the door for affiliate marketing).

But I just wondered how many people make a nice income as an affiliate and have never released a product...or only release very few???

No real reason for the question I just wondered.. what the consensus was on "FULL TIME AFFILIATE MARKETERS"!

Rich,
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  • Profile picture of the author bertboy60
    Yeap, find a good niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alan Ashwood
      Hi

      Started with a straight forward blog, and moved second one over to affiliate marketing.
      Now have several sites, mostly focussing on affiliate marketing, and after 12 months I'm starting to see a consistent return.

      Haven't created my own products yet, due to lack of confidence (?).
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      • Profile picture of the author blackhawkup
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        congrats on finally seeing a return....

        Actually product creation isn't for everybody..it is another form of income that you can add to your portfolio but if you learn how to make affiliate marketing work..you can still make a six figure income and above...


        Originally Posted by Alan Ashwood View Post

        Hi

        Started with a straight forward blog, and moved second one over to affiliate marketing.
        Now have several sites, mostly focussing on affiliate marketing, and after 12 months I'm starting to see a consistent return.

        Haven't created my own products yet, due to lack of confidence (?).
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    No ... I sell my own products and services. I don't care much for affiliate marketing and only promote a very few affiliate products occasionally.
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    Rich, good question. I've wondered that myself, if me learning all this and trying to make money only being an affiliate was actually worth continuing or is all the real money being made creating products or websites to sell. I hope more people answer this who are indeed making a living ONLY promoting other people's affiliate offers.
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  • Profile picture of the author sirtiman
    I find out there's other way to get income from affiliate niche besides the product creation, try like outsource services, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    Yep. I've made about 1300 (not sales, 1300 that went to me for my commissions) just in the past week from affiliate marketing.

    The one piece of advice that I can give you? If you are going to be promoting a product, buy it for yourself and learn it. If someone asks you a question and you've never used the product, how are you going to answer?

    They will just go find someone who has.. So yeah, trust me it works a lot better that way. I honestly can't stand people who are pushing products they have no clue about and have never even used.

    After all, if you can't convince YOURSELF to buy the product, how are you going to convince anybody else?

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Warrior Child
    I get my income from part time job who out-earns my regular office work but absolutely new and interested in earning some through affiliate Marketing on a continuous basis.
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    • Profile picture of the author fluffythewondercat
      The majority of my income is from investments and physical product sales.

      I'm not terribly interested in affiliate marketing.

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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Yes, all my income is made as an affiliate.

        I like the facility to be able to build up a solid, asset-based business with growing residual income from work already done without needing to be dependent on the success/continuity/survival of any specific, individual product(s) at all (and without needing to worry about product development and support and customer service in the ways that vendors do): my growing assets are my niche websites and my lists, and no disaster with individual products can take those away from me.
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        • Profile picture of the author blackhawkup
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          Good answer..thats the type of response i was looking for...

          If you dont mind me asking....do you try to dominate or better yet "infiltrate" multiple niches or do you just try to dominate a single niche?

          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          Yes, all my income is made as an affiliate.

          I like the facility to be able to build up a solid, asset-based business with growing residual income from work already done without needing to be dependent on the success/continuity/survival of any specific, individual product(s) at all (and without needing to worry about product development and support and customer service in the ways that vendors do): my growing assets are my niche websites and my lists, and no disaster with individual products can take those away from me.
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by Rich Jackson View Post

            If you dont mind me asking....do you try to dominate or better yet "infiltrate" multiple niches or do you just try to dominate a single niche?
            Multiple niches, for me.

            I like to get something up and running, and gradually add other niches to my business. Up to a point, of course ... I couldn't add new ones all the time, because I still have to "maintain" the earlier ones (and write autoresponder emails for them).

            I'd be a little bit frightened of "one niche" in case it all went wrong on me ("eggs and baskets"), and I could never cope with more than about 20 (and will never realistically get to as many as that, probably). I have 8, at the moment (and that comes to about 21/22 different products), all started off at different times over the last 3 years, and am working on getting a 9th one ready to go, which will be a huge and experimental "new departure" for me, in its way.
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            • Profile picture of the author blackhawkup
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              just sent you a pm...

              Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

              Multiple niches, for me.

              I like to get something up and running, and gradually add other niches to my business. Up to a point, of course ... I couldn't add new ones all the time, because I still have to "maintain" the earlier ones (and write autoresponder emails for them).

              I'd be a little bit frightened of "one niche" in case it all went wrong on me ("eggs and baskets"), and I could never cope with more than about 20 (and will never realistically get to as many as that, probably). I have 8, at the moment (and that comes to about 21/22 different products), all started off at different times over the last 3 years, and am working on getting a 9th one ready to go, which will be a huge and experimental "new departure" for me, in its way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan David
    Shoemoney made a post about this recently. I make money as an affiliate and it's great in a lot of ways. But I like controlling the checkout process, whether it's my product or someone elses. Having your own product just gives you a lot of control. And a lot more options by having your own affiliates and/or wholesalers.

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  • Profile picture of the author blackout17
    I have started a little bit of aff marketing through Amazon for my hobby related niche website, had the one sale and getting more and more clicks which is good just need more traffic interested in my website!
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Miranda
    No, 99% of my online income comes from my own products & services.
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  • Profile picture of the author interactive
    I look for multi-billion dollar evergreen markets. Real Estate, Penny Auctions, eLearning Courses in Real Estate, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Business and Making Money. I also do marketing for other businesses and promote other businesses which have affililate programs. Everything you do revolves around getting traffic no matter what you are promoting. Through many years of research we have the best traffic sources.
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  • Profile picture of the author biz_online
    Rich! There are more than 1M things that you can promote as an affiliate. Generally, I would say stay away form Amazon and Commission Junction unless you "REALLY" know how to drive traffic.

    But once you've mastered traffic. You can write your own ticket.

    Amazon pays too little, and if you've noticed, as new tax laws go into effect, Amazon is dropping affiliates overnite and w/o much warning.

    Commission Junction and similar websites change offers almost daily. I was promoting Fastweb on my Squidoo Lenses and they kept making the offers expire. Then, they made my links go completely dead. I tried other offers on CJ and finally gave up.

    So don't get fooled by the usual "Hype" surrounding affiliate marketing.

    The best offers are CPA zip submits. They pay very low, but if you install a tracker like Prosper202 and use CPV/PPV traffic from big sites like TrafficVance, you can start seeing a profit, depending on the offer.

    Stay away for CPV sites like DirectCPV because they have low volume and have a very slow platform. You have to constantly logon to see your stats and turn off campaigns that are not working. You also need to rotate your offers to get the highest conversion rates.

    If you find this info helpful... please give me a thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author goldenlogos
    Most of my income come from my services, but my amazon income comes as pocket money, being a small amount. I would get into affiliate more, but I believe that whoever is successful in it, doesn't give up its tactics and strategy, and what you find from the rest are just some pointers, not a step-by-step quality tutorial. Hoping warrior forum will help in finding such a strategy.
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