Understanding affiliate marketing business model

Sagnik Dey
3 min readFeb 8, 2021

What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing model is the model of business is promoting other’s product ad earning the commission from each product. Affiliate marketing has been a trending business among the part time entrepreneurs (housewives, students and working professionals). Affiliate marketing is a very easy-to-setup business and this requires very minimal investment.

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Why is Affiliate marketing a millionaire’s den?

Affiliate marketing has seen an amazing boom in the business world lately, because new businesspersons want to launch an elaborate business at very low investments and want to be millionaires and billionaires quickly. you know, those ‘get rich quick’ dreams that youngsters have. Well, I must say that affiliate marketing has successfully completed this dream to some extent. The affiliate marketing businesses work by adding more people to a network in return of giving the people of that network a product to use. These days, these business models usually used in promoting courses and online products. Affiliate marketing works on building networks and the money is made from every individual added to the network. Recently, affiliate marketing is producing many millionaires and providing sustainable income to more.

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Why many affiliate marketeers fail?

affiliate marketeers, these days are not properly trained and the industry is facing a huge lack of trained marketeers who can actually powerfully convey their ideas. One of the biggest things, affiliate marketeers need is proper training and motivation to scale up. Learning in the process is quite cliche these days and can cause you huge sales loss. The demand of affiliates is also very less and marketeers have to struggle to reach their initial market. The mentors of the field are also not being able to reach thier students thoroughly. Marketeers' motivation is also a prominent and important effective reason for thier failure, most of the affiliates seek to get earnings fast and when find themselves struggling they end up giving up.

5 ways to improve the quality of affiliate marketeers

  1. Practical free mentorships
  2. Focusing on improving their communication skills and removing thier social anxiety.
  3. Train them to specialization in a particular media through which they can start their marketing careers.
  4. ‘Premiumizing’ their marketing tools and mentoring them through it.
  5. Creating unique products for affiliate marketeers to market.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, affiliate marketeers can have an amazing industry to rule through skills and continuously upgrading themselves. Businesses in the upcoming years will be welcoming affiliate marketing agencies and this could be the creation of business world.

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Sagnik Dey

Business enthusiast, content writer, young coach