Every business has its own pros and cons. It’s just the way it is. A business that may be perfect for one person may be terrible for someone else. The same goes for affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is where a person creates a product and has others market that product for a percentage of the profits for each product sold.
Here are some positives to this type of marketing:
·Affiliate marketing owner
One pro to using affiliate marketing for the owner is you have more people promoting your product and you are reaching out to people that was never possible before.
Another pro to using affiliate marketing is you have the ability to generate a mailing list that you can use in the future for new products or information that you want to share.
·Affiliate marketer
A pro for the marketer would be the fact that you don’t have to create the product, maintain the site, answer questions, or send out products.
Another pro for marketers is the fact that you can find many products that are perfect for your target market and share them with those people without doing any research to find them.
Here are some negatives to this type of marketing:
·Affiliate marketing owner
One of the biggest cons for affiliate marketing is the time it takes to update your site, introduce new products, find affiliates, and pay them.
Another con is that you have to deal with affiliates that are upset when payments come in, you also have to deal with affiliates when a product is returned and you have to take the income back, and you have to deal with people that want a refund on products they are unhappy with.
· Affiliate marketers
A con to being an this type of marketer is that you don’t have control of the product or service that you are marketing. So in essence, if someone is unhappy with the results of the owner, they may come to you and want you to do something about it.
Another con for an affiliate marketer would be the lack of products to promote to your target market. If your target market is very tight and you have an unusual target market you may have a hard time finding products to promote to them.
As you can see from the pros and cons listed above, you will have some thinking to do before you decide to become an affiliate marketing owner or an affiliate marketer. One thing to remember is you can always change your mind about this. You are not stuck in this forever.
