Wake up at an ungodly hour. Drive to the office through total gridlock, streets jammed with other half-asleep commuters. Slog through email after mind-numbing email until the sweet release at five o’clock.

Sound terrible?

What if, instead of dealing with the monotony and stupor of the rat race to earn a few bucks, you could make money at any time, from anywhere — even while you sleep?

That’s the concept behind affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is a popular tactic to drive sales and generate significant online revenue. Extremely beneficial to both brands and affiliate marketers, the new push towards less traditional marketing tactics has paid off. In fact:

    81% of brands and 84% of publishers leverage the power of affiliate marketing, a statistic that will continue to increase as affiliate marketing spending increases every year in the United States.
    There is a 10.1% increase in affiliate marketing spending in the United States each year, meaning that by 2020, that number will reach $6.8 billion.
    In 2018, content marketing costs were gauged to be 62% of traditional marketing schemes while simultaneously generating three times the leads of traditional methods. In fact, 16% of all orders made online can be attributed to the impact of affiliate marketing.

 Affiliate marketing is a performance-based business where affiliate marketers or affiliates earn money via revenue-sharing.  This means they get paid a fixed commission when a certain qualified action happens to the products, they are marketing. Examples of these are confirmed leads or qualified sales.

Affiliate marketers become independent promoters of their chosen product, service or even a range of products. As an affiliate marketer, you will have the freedom to choose what techniques or strategies you want to use to reach the greatest number of customers.

Benefits of Affiliate Marketing