Why Affiliate Marketing?

New Affiliates, Why are you here? Why have you decided to get into Affiliate Marketing? Whatever the reasons, the Affiliate Marketing industry continues to grow at very rapid pace with affiliates earning billions of dollars each year. Please see some of the reasons attributed to this rapid growth and why more persons are turning to Affiliate Marketing as the way to earn a steady income online.

1. You have a wide variety of products to choose from and you don't necessarily have to create or sell only your products. You may go online, research all the different affiliate programs and pick the ones you would like to promote.

2. Most Affiliate programs are free to join.

3. You can get started as an affiliate marketer with little or no money or starting capital. Basically all you need to do to get started is to create a blog, webpage or website and insert your affiliate links and then start promoting.

4. Almost immediately after an affiliate makes a sale or generates a lead, his or her account is credited with a commission payment.

5. Affiliate marketing creates a fairly easy way for website owners or blog owners to create an income stream from their websites. Always try to promote products or services that are related to the content on your blog or website.

6. As an affiliate marketer you are your own boss, you set your own hours and you work from anywhere you want to.

7. Affiliate marketing offers the chance of earning unlimited income and is solely based on the affiliate's effort, motivation and dedication.

8. As an affiliate marketer you dont have to worry about things such as storage, shipping, delivering, renting office space etc as this is all handled by the merchants. All you have to do is find and promote the products.

9. An affiliate can work with as much companies and promote as much products as he/she wants to. Hence affiliates are able to diversify their income stream and work on multiple projects at the same time.

10. To become an affiliate you don't need a MBA or a Degree to get started. All you need is the motivation, drive, determination and some amount of knowledge to be successful.

11. An affiliate marketer benefits from low overheads and expenses as all that is required to get started is a computer with good internet connection and you are well on your way.

12. Affiliate Marketers are paid billions of dollars in commissions each year by online merchants. Affiliate Marketing is now a 6 billion dollar industry and will continue to grow at rapid pace in the future.

13. An affiliate marketer benefits from the content on their websites and can capitalize on the traffic as a result of good content.