Affiliate marketing business models has quite a few advantages over other kinds of business model. For a newbie who are just starting out on their business and on a shoe string budget, it will be difficult for them to invest a big amount of money to have their own professionally developed products, good sales letter written by proven copywriter and huge budget for advertisement. That is when affiliate marketing comes in.
If you are doing affiliate marketing, you do not have to do the above things. What you will have to do is to refer the traffic to the merchant’s website through your personalized affiliate link. If the person that you refer buys the product, you will be paid of your commissions.
Did you realize the beauty of the whole thing? Your overhead cost of doing business is very much lower then the merchant. Yes, as like in any other kind of business, you will have to make some kind of investment. But the amount of money used to operate a affiliate marketing business is way much lower than starting a offline business.
Some of the tools that you have to make investment in are Autoresponder, domain, hosting account. You might also need to spend a small amount on advertising. You will need to invest money but the amount of money that is invested by you will never be more than what the merchant has to spend to float his operation.
If a monthly investment of $100 is difficult for you to invest, then this model might not be for you. All business will require your time, effort and money so that you will be able to grow it. No doubts there are lots of advantages of doing affiliate marketing business buy if you do not want to take action, then this business model is not for you.
