A question I get from a lot of new affiliate marketers is “How Much Money Can I Make with Affiliate Marketing?”
Like other questions in this industry, there’s no way to give a definitive answer. Some affiliate websites make 20-$30,000 a month while some never make more than a few hundred.
If you stick with it though, the sky really is the limit. It’s not like a job where you have a set salary you can achieve and you’re done. YOU determine how much you make and nobody else.
If you grow one website and it caps off at $700 a month, then start building another website. Maybe that one grows to $2,000 a month, so you’re profiting $2,700 a month. Maybe you get lucky on your first site and it starts making $3,000, then $8,000, and over time it continues to grow into a website that produces five figures a month.
So the best thing I can tell you is – it’s up to you. If you work hard and you create extraordinary content, you could be making more than me next year. Nobody controls that but you.
My name is Ian from NoMoreBSReviews.com and I’m doing my best to provide free, honest advice and training to make sure people like you never get ripped off again. Until next time, stay safe out there and I’ll talk to you soon.
Yes, Ian, you definitely are one of a kind. 🙂
Happy to have met you virtually, and thank you for everything. You rock!
No problem at all, Vesna! 🙂 Stay safe out there!
Hey Ian
Very good article and invaluable suggestions. My biggest issue is actually getting the website up to start exploring Bootcamp or finding a niche that I can be good at. I am still looking for a hands-on training video series like AWAOL Academy does. I joined them recently and feel that WA seems to be a better fit. But, I must say that the way they guide you through setting the website and linking to leadpages, Clickmagick or Get result, seems to be better than what WA offers. Tell me if I am wrong. Or give me the lowdown as to how I can get the Website up so that I can begin my marketing campaign.
Hey Phillip — that’s definitely a best practice, and unfortunately it’s one of the places that WA falls short. But you don’t need any of that until you’re getting consistent traffic (which usually takes at least several months if focusing on content creation and SEO), so it’s also an unnecessary up-front expense for the vast majority of people trying to get started in this industry.
These days, for SEO-centric sites, I just focus on getting the site up (clean and easy to navigate — nothing fancy design-wise) and start pumping out super high quality content as regularly as I can. Once I start seeing posts get regular traffic, THEN I worry about how to monetize them by linking to a landing page, growing my subscriber list, integrating affiliate links, etc. That’s all much later-stage, and the reason most products get you thinking about that WAY earlier than you need to is because it gets you purchasing products/services through their affiliate links, which makes them a few hundred bucks extra. Not all of them, but most people doing that are coming from that perspective.
Truthfully, it’s just a bunch of expensive, unnecessary stuff you don’t need until you get traffic — which is what WA focuses on.
I hope that helps!
You are one of a kind, thank you for your honest opinion and down to earth review. I wish I had this type of review when I first started with tons of money and all was gypped by hungry jack of no good. Now tell me how I will build my site, do I go to Fiverr and contract or will this lesson teach me how to do it since I am now one of your members.
No problem at all, Dozie! I’m very happy to help. Contracting people on Fiverr is probably a very, very poor idea. It has it’s uses, but they’re rare and since your business should be built on quality above all else, it’s important to not use typically low-quality resources like Fiverr as the backbone of your business. Follow the “Online Entrepreneur Certification” training at Wealthy Affiliate and you should begin getting a pretty good jumpstart in this industry.