Ten Reasons why you should be in Affiliate Marketing

I know there’s a lot of reluctant people out there, still grinding away with Adsense. Many have taken the path of Affiliate Marketing & had success, others have fallen at the first hurdle, whimpering back to Adsense like a child whose candy has been stolen.

Here’s my top 10 reasons why you should be doing Affiliate Marketing:

1. Affiliate Marketing is not a solo project, you can integrate it into your existing monetisation systems to increase your income portfolio. Don’t treat it separately.
2. Affiliate Marketing not only diversifes your income portfolio but it also reduces the risk of losing all your income should something happen to another account (i.e. Adsense).
3. You have the ability to target the products & services that you WANT to target, rather than rely on Adsense or YPN to contextually target related products.
4. You can place Affiliate Links in PDF’s & benefit from people reselling the ebook.
5. Products & conversions will normally pay out in a lump sum for a signup or lead rather than paying out per click, promoting the right products in the right way can result in an fantastic EPC (Earnings per Click).
6. There’s hundreds of Affiliate Networks to work with, each specialising in different areas.
7. Affiliate Marketing is a great way to supplement other investments, for example I put all of my Affiliate Marketing earnings in Investments to greater increase their worth. If I wasn’t doing Affiliate Marketing I’d not have those additional investments therefore my overall income, savings & retirement plan wouldn’t be as secure.
8. One of my favourite things about Affiliate Marketing is the ability to be able to think outside the box & be creative with what you’re doing. For example check out this website I saw a few days ago called Blackle. It an “energy saving” search engine. I.e. a Google Adsense search box with a black background. Ingenious.
9. Affiliate Marketing relates directly to Search Marketing in a lot of capacities. SEO, PPC, Conversions & Analytics. Experience in these fields can look great on a CV & also show experience within the industry.
10. There’s nothing better than waking up in the morning, checking your conversions & having it bring a big grin to your face. Even better, tweaking your campaigns as much as you can to squeeze that last bit of revenue out of them.

What do YOU love about affiliate marketing?