Typical Affiliate Earning

Your typical earnings as an affiliate marketer will vary (what? you were expecting a specific $ figure ;-)). When you are first starting out, your earnings will ramp up slowly. Depending on what and how you are promoting, it could be a long haul. A lot of people will try to take the shortcut of going straight to PPC (pay-per-click) and then quickly lose their shirts. PPC is a science or art unto itself. It is better to get the basics down and take the long road, gain some experience, and then build on that and work your way up to PPC instead of diving right in and losing thousands of dollars.

So, what kind of earning potential can you expect as an affiliate?

Starting from ground zero, you should be able to earn your first $100 to a few hundred dollars within a month. Provided you put in the effort and hard work. And trust me, it is a LOT of hard work.

Your biggest hurdle will most likely be content creation. Lots and lots of writing is involved. As you grow and your marketing efforts get bigger, your earnings will increase, and you can re-invest those earnings into outsourcing your content creation so you can focus on identifying new markets and offers and building sites or extending existing sites to promote those offers.

If you are GOOD, you could be doing thousands of dollars a week within a few months. If you are REALLY GOOD, you could do even more. If you have a huge credit line and get into PPC, you could be doing tens of thousands of dollars a day in affiliate earning. But you will most likely lose a lot of money at first. So you need both a big bankroll and some fearless willpower.

On this blog, I will focus on non-PPC easy ways to make money online for free or with minimal investment in hosting accounts.