certain product, but as long as you are putting an effort to achieve your
marketing goals, that’s fine. You’d be surprised that most successful affiliate
marketers have a background in totally unrelated fields.
Passive income
When you are an accountant with a big pharmaceutical, you must always
show up to work to earn a salary. If you stay away from work, you
presumably don’t get the salary. But when it comes to affiliate marketing,
you have a perfect opportunity to earn while you sleep. Of course, this won’t
happen automatically. You have to put in tremendous initial work so that you
may be able to earn passively. For instance, if you own a blog, you have to
generate valuable content so that the search engines will keep directing traffic
to your blog, and the visitors will heed to your various Calls to Action. In this
way, you will be earning passively. This is exactly why you see many
affiliate marketers affording to tour the world and living in exotic places.
They might be traveling, but they are also earning, so the party doesn’t stop.
You become a thought leader
People seem to trust people that demonstrate competence. When you have
been marketing a product or service for a while, you will acquire more
knowledge about the product and service, and it will show in your marketing
message. In that case, you qualify to become a thought leader, and people
will start looking to you for guidance where that product or service is
involved. Being a thought leader boosts your earning potential as you are in a
position to influence more people, and you also have the luxury of setting
higher prices than the norm. But then again you have to be careful that you
don’t abuse your power else people will become vicious with you.