Let me show you here, why it may be the best option for you to start a very profitable home based business, and what advantages it has over other business models.
The main advantages of affiliate marketing are:
- You don't need own products to sell
- You don't need to do shipping
- You don't need to do any customer support
- You don't need to pay anything to start promoting products and get commissions for it.
- The selling is being done for you.
(you only "pre-sell" - for example with a simple product review) - You can start without a own website
Now what about the advantages over some other online business models? - Affiliate Marketing vs.
Network Marketing: In network marketing, you can build a very attractive residual income, because of the multi level structure.
But for the same reason it is a lot harder to earn decent money that with affiliate marketing.
In affiliate marketing, you don't need to rely on other people, you can make it on your own.
- Affiliate Marketing vs.
a webshop: Ok, a webshop needs a lot of time to get traffic and customers, and you need products.
You probably need to invest a lot of money first, before you are making profits.
- Affiliate Marketing vs.
Adsense: To earn money with AdSense or other ads on your website, you need a high traffic website, or a high traffic blog.
Or many low traffic websites or blogs.
It is possible, and it's easier to get clicks on ads than to get sales.
Though I think, and that is the opinion of many, that in most cases, you can make much more money with linking to affiliate products, than with placing ads.