So many articles will have you believe that affiliate marketing is the perfect side hustle.
Find a product or niche, get a few clicks and all of a sudden you can retire early and live off a 6 figure passive income, right?
Well no. Obviously. If it was that easy everyone would do it.
I might not be the right person to tell you this, I’ve only just got started with it myself. But in my opinion that makes me the best person to tell you. I’ve tried other avenues, affiliate marketing is the one that stands out to me.
Affiliate marketing is hard work. I work in the marketing industry so you’d think I’d be a pro. But balancing a career and building a good side hustle is difficult, even if that side hustle is directly related to your career.
I haven’t been trying too long but I can safely say gaining traction is the most difficult part of affiliate marketing. No matter if you have a blog, you’re using socials like TikTok or Pinterest or if you are paying for ads, if you or what you’re promoting aren’t interesting nobody is going to care.
The market is oversaturated with too many people relying on trends. At the time of writing, I see posts about a ‘sunset lamp’ everywhere. Under Twitter posts, on TikTok, Facebook. It’s everywhere. All these posts do is take you to some thrown together drop-shipping page or down a sales funnel to an affiliate page.
The point I’m trying to make is, that unless your product is revolutionary you’re going to struggle to stand out amongst the crowd. And even if it is, you are still going to have people doing the same as you.
So Where do You Start?
Start by picking your niche or product. Set up whatever channels you want to use. Personally, I use TikTok and Pinterest to drive traffic to my blog or directly to the products I show off. I use my blog to go in-depth with reviews or projects shown on my socials.
Now the hard bit. The part I’m currently dealing with.
Grind.
This is the key to every side hustle. These get rich quick stories are 1 in a million. We need to do it the old fashioned way. With hard work and determination.
You are quite literally starting from nothing. No one owes you a thing so you have to put in the work. It might take months before you even get meaningful traffic but as long as you keep trying you will generate traction and you will see results.
The secret to affiliate marketing is the same as everything else in life. Hard work.
Put in the work and eventually, the results will speak for themselves.
You aren’t going to see results overnight. That is the unfortunate truth. I wish we could, I wish I could rely on my passive income to travel the world or buy expensive cars. But I can’t. Yet. The only way to stop wishing is by putting the work in.
So go out there and get started. Find what product or niche appeals to you, if you have fun doing it, you’ll find the time will fly. If results don’t start quickly keep grinding. Eventually, they will.
Here are 2 Products that get results:
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