Why You Should be an Affiliate Marketer

If you are not into Affiliate marketing, you are missing out big time. I mean, consider this. You are basically your own boss as an affiliate marketer. You have no irritating boss to worry about- you are your own boss. While you are on vacation in Cancun or the Caribbean, the cash keeps rolling in. Nothing beats this. What is so amazing about affiliate marketing is that it is so simple. Because you are selling other people's products, you don have to worry about customer rage, fraud or any of these headaches. That's for your merchants(or those whose products you are promoting) to worry out. Let me give some more reasons why you should be an affiliate marketer.


No Need to Worry About Product Development
You have no need to worry about product development.Trust me! it might expensive developing and producing a product. And the amount of money you pour in to R&D is massive. To make matters worse, your product could be a success or a huge bust. But you needn't worry about that as an affiliate. All you have to do is choose a product out of the zillions out there and promote it on your blog or website and earn your commission each time a customer purchases the product through your affiliate link.


Affiliate Marketing is Very Cheap.
When i say affiliate marketing is very cheap, I mean the cost for setting up doesn't shoot through the stratosphere. All you need is a laptop or PC, Internet connectivity, and a desk and you are in business.


You Can Join Affiliate Programs From Anywhere 
It doesn't matter which corner of this planet you are hiding in, you can join affiliate programs from anywhere. The wingspan of the Internet is such that you could be in Afghanistan and still sign to any affiliate program of your choice. The exciting part of this craze is that affiliate programs are free to join. your only limitation is your inability to promote your website.


You Have Thousands of Products and Services to Choose From
Probably the fringe benefit of being a affiliate marketer is that you have thousands of products and services to choose from. You have mundane products like screw drivers and canned sprays to bigger products like laptops, Internet marketing products, e.t.c to choose from- the choice is yours. Fortunately popular affiliate networks such as Commission and amazon make it relatively easier for affiliates to choose products related to their websites.


You Don't Need a Merchant Account.
If you are wondering whether you need a merchant account to get into affiliate marketing, Let me allay your worries. You don't need a merchant account to start your affiliate business. The only account you need is an affiliate account on your merchant's affiliate program. Besides, a merchant account comes with its own headaches like fraud, payment processing, charge backs and so on. You don't need  to pull your hair out over these headaches. That's  the responsibility of your merchants.


You Don't  Need to Store Inventory
Unlike your merchants you don't need to store inventory. That is because you are promoting all that inventory online. You don't need to carry any of the products home. All of them are store in some warehouse and all you have to do is to  promote the products online. So it doesn't matter whether you live in a rat hole(joking!), you have no need to worry about inventory.


No Shipping Costs
Again, unlike your merchant, you have no shipping costs to worry about. You don't need to scratch your hair over supplies and postal rates. That's for your merchant to worry about.


No Customer Rage
Isn't it annoying dealing with irate customers over just about everything including the way you say hello? Well, you can watch from a distance while your merchant  struggles to get them to calm down.  You have no customer rage to concern yourself about.


Make Money While in Dreamland
By 'Make Money While in Dreamland' I mean make money in your sleep. The Internet is such that you don't have to be up all night unlike our offline brethren. While you sleep the cash rolls in. You must understand that while you are asleep,  other corners of the globe are still awake. Besides, the Internet operates 24/7 which makes for a nice trade off.


Huge Money to be Made
Of course there is huge money to be made in affiliate marketing. How much money you make depends on your effort, desire and your creativity. Don't blame your boss if you fail. You are the boss this time around.


So now you see why you should be an affiliate marketer? The sky is the limit as far as affiliate marketing is concerned. And the low set-up costs makes it that much easier for anybody to start an affiliate marketing business. So if you want learn affiliate marketing from a super affiliate, in plain English without your technical mumbo jumbo Download Rosalind Gardner's Super Affiliate Handbook. She shows readers how  to succeed in affiliate marketing in plain but fun language.