Is joining a affiliate program a bad idea?

Question

I am trying to find a way to make money at home so I can quite my dead end job. I am just wondering if affiliate programs work and how long does it take to build an income with this? How do I find companies that hire affiliates?

Answer 1

I have to agree with another poster and gave them a thumbs up.  They are correct about affiliates being home based business owners.  Your not hired your build a business through collaborations within a company.  A business within a business.  Kind of like if you were to open up a McDonald's, you'd own that particular business, but you wouldn't own the entire chain or McDonald's. Just that one restaurant.

Affiliate business owners have the same income opportunities as a traditional owner, they just do it the smarter way and have less over head.  Most of the overhead expenses are things they have to pay for each month anyway, like house payments, Internet and telephone services, electricity, car expenses etc etc.  Only they were going to use these things regardless if they went into business or not.  Also the fact that everything like that becomes a tax write off.  With that, yes joining an affiliate program is not a bad idea, it can be an actually good idea.  

I'm a mom and understand you needing to find a way to make money at home.  A lot of people are going into business for themselves and running them out of their homes.  The way the economy is giong, gas price inflation, it's pretty much forcing people to have to find alternative ways to make their income.  Home based businesses (affiliate programs) are an excellent way to do this.  Like I said, you have the same income opportunity as a traditional business.

How long does it take to build an income with this line of work?  That all depends on you.  It's your business, not a job you are not hired, so you have to build the business from the ground up.  How long it takes you really depends on you and no one else.

Here's an article I suggest you read on this topic.  It will give you a lot of information on this as well as quite a few industries to look into if affiliate programs are the way you want to go.

  http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-eqfAfFMlc...

Answer 2

Ok so you've gotten some bad advice and some decent advice.  Here is the low down.

1. It takes years and years before you can build a full fledge Affiliate Business that will earn you a large enough income that you can quit your day job.  It will not come over night and it will not be easy.

2. If anyone charges you anything to be an affiliate, the program is a fake.

3. Do not promote programs that allow adware and parasites.  Your commissions will be stolen.

4. You can join networks like ShareaSale.com or Performics.com or CJ.com, however, once you are approved into the network, you still need to apply to each program you want to promote.  You will not automatically be given access to all programs in a real and legitimate Affiliate Network.

5. Once you have the programs and sites, you now need to become an expert at white hat online and offline marketing to generate a long term success strategy.  Your Affiliate business will take 5-10 years of constant work to actually create a liveable income.  Do not fall for a get rich quick deal, you will fail.  The only person who gets rich is the person scamming you at the top.

visit these sites for more info on Affiliate Marketing:

http://www.affspot.com

http://www.revenews.com

http://www.affiliatefairplay.com

http://www.downtownecommerce.com

http://www.abestweb.com

Answer 3

i wouldn't i joined that proceesathome c**p and it was a scam don't become a affliate i've tried it for months and i havn't got a penny http://www.myberrytree.com/86138/ i would check this out it actually works and they guarantee your sucess i've made money my first week, i'm done wasting my time with that affiliate stuff check it out i hope i was help

Answer 4

i just posted my question and gave a site name - www.littlesecret.ucoz.com   go to their forumand find job opportunity!

i work for them and make good money...welll i work only for a week....join! it's free! lets work together.

Answer 5

Affiliate networks do not hire people.  You apply to join them and once you are approved you are given access to their merchant base.

You select a merchant that has products that are relevant to your website. You then copy the product or banner code and paste it on your web. When you make a sale the network will pay you a percentage.

Depending on the volumes of traffic to your site, it can take some months to start earning a reasonable amount.

If you are going to try affiliate marketing it probably pays to go with the bigger networks so that you know you are guaranteed to be paid for your sales.

Commission Junction, Shareasale, Linkshare are all reputable networks.

For some real assistance with making money online check out http://www.squidoo.com/wealthy-affiliate...

Answer 6

First, affiliates are not hired.  Employees are hired.  As an affiliate, you are your own business owner.

Second, there are many legitimate affiliate programs, and nobody is getting rich from them.  Don't expect to replace your job this way.

Third, there are a lot of scams that disguise themselves as affiliate programs.  Be careful.