Niche Affiliate Marketing – The Best Kept Secret Online

In the pre-internet era if you wanted to start a business, you generally needed a building and inventory and thousands and thousands of dollars to invest.  But the internet has changed all that. 

Now you can certainly still sell physical products that you own either through your own website, or a portal like ebay.  This can certainly be profitable, but can still equal a whole lot of upfront costs.

But, what if you could set up blog or websites and link to other peoples products and make a commision each time that product was sold?   It would be a very low overhead business and great to start on a limited budget, right? That is exactly what affiliate marketing is.

With affiliate marketing:

• You don’t need to carry any product

Why Niche Affiliate Marketing is Not Some Get Rich Quick Scheme

I make my living marketing products and services that I don’t own to specific groups of people (called niche markets).  I’ve been full time since June 2007, and got my start in October 2006 when I joined Wealthy Affiliate University, where I am still an active member.

By the way, if you click on this Wealthy Affiliate University link, Kyle and Carson (the owners) will give you a FREE internet wealth guide.  Just wait for the pop up and enter your info.

I know from experience that their is a lot of misinformation out there about how to make money being an affiliate, and plenty of sales letters that will lead you to believe that you can make $10,000 this month if you follow their method.  If you are very experienced, you can take a new technique and generate $10,000 and more in a single month.  BUT, the average newbie has no such luck, and because of the huge promises that these products make a lot of people become discouraged and quit.

If you decide to pursue affiliate marketing (and I do recommend it) based on my experience, here are some realistic expectations:

To make money being an affiliate marketer: