Affiliate Marketing: The Social Media Connection

The affiliate marketing opportunities for entrepreneurial individuals to monetize their blogs and websites continue to expand. Many have gone from supplementing their incomes to earning substantial rewards. What role might social media play in this exploding industry?

The affiliate marketing opportunities for entrepreneurial individuals to monetize their blogs and websites continue to expand. Many have gone from supplementing their incomes to earning substantial rewards.

But success may allude those who fail to grasp affiliate marketing’s increasingly competitive landscape and growing reliance on social media.

I’m attending Affiliate Marketing West 2011 and confess only a passing knowledge of affiliate marketing upon arriving. After a full day of workshops yesterday, I came away with the impression that, while the techniques of affiliate marketing are built on a foundation of recently accessible Internet technologies, the core principles are little changed from antecedent sales and marketing platforms.

The affiliate marketing model is rather straightforward.

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