Here are my top 5 reasons (in no particular order) that make affiliate marketing so exciting right now.
Everything is fair game out there -
We have some of the biggest companies out there with affiliate programs and there is nothing holding you back from signing up with them. If youre online right now within the next 5 minutes you could be signed up with an affiliate program and start making money. Of course, it takes more than just signing up with an affiliate program to make money but that leads into my next point.
You get out of it what you put into it
Its so simple anyone can do it, but hardly anyone will. If you really look at how you are marketing your affiliate programs offers and dig into the process to get those extra leads and sales then you will obviously be more successful than someone who just happens to throw up a blog in 10 minutes to sell the next hot thing. Take the time to hone your craft and the sky is the limit, invest no time and expect huge results and you will be disappointed quickly.
Plenty of help out there to help make you successful -
People are online right now making money when it comes to using affiliate marketing. The crazy thing is these same people making the money are also willing to give advice out on their blogs and tweets. They also offer tons of free information to get someone new pointed in the right direction.
Did I mention no inventory
Ok, not only are you going to be paid for selling and referring items, but also you dont have to deal with inventory, warehousing, shipping, or returns of said products. You can have a whole store of products if you wish and never have to deal with actually handling any item. I mean thats just ridiculous, I dont even know what else to say about that.
Its win-win
You get paid for promoting an item, and the company that sells the item gets more orders. If you dont like the item in question than dont push that item. If the product is something you were probably talking about anyway, you get some cash and the company supplying the product gets more orders. What more could you want?