Is it too late to get started in Affiliate Marketing?

I received an email from a subscriber (Gary).

Gary asked: I am a newbie and I am thinking about getting involved in affiliate marketing – Do you think affiliate marketing is saturated?  It seems every guru is selling an affiliate marketing program to teach others how to do affiliate marketing.

At first I was a little taken back by the question, then I started talking to my wife about the question and came to the conclusion that if one person asked the question there are probably others that have the same question but my not ask it. So watch the video to see my answer.

Affiliate Marketing is a method of online marketing and can be used in any niche.

As an affiliate marketer, I promote products online from treadmills to fine china – and everything in between. Most often I promote physical products.

There is a common misconception that Affiliate Marketing is all about selling ebooks or info-products about Affiliate Marketing. However, there is actually Affiliate Marketing as a niche and Affiliate Marketing as a method…

Today is my first day as a Full Time Online Marketer. Today is the day I have been looking forward to for some time.

Check out the video below…

Me and my family celebrated all weekend.

I am so looking forward to sharing more and better information to you all. I feel that I have slipped in this area and I really want to improve the quality of information, especially to my email subscribers.

I am still going to focus on Affiliate Marketing, especially physical products. I was going to try and get in on the Halloween season but I feel it is too late to get in so instead I am going to turn my affiliate marketing focus to the Christmas season.

I look forward to sharing more with you all on the future. I realize that I still owe you information based on your answers from my affiliate marketing survey. Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten.

I appreciate you all and the questions and comments you provide me.

It is time to publish the results of my Affiliate Marketing Survey.  The survey was conducted a few weeks ago and I want to first say thanks to those of you that participated. 

The survey will really help me to better serve you.  I got some great information and great feedback with this survey.  At the same time this will be helpful for me with staying focused on issues that you all or at least most of you will be interested in.

The Survey Questions

1. How would you describe your current activity in Affiliate Marketing?

I’m totally new to Affiliate Marketing aka. Newbie.

I’ve joined affiliate network(s) but have not made a sale yet.

I’ve made a few sales but nothing to brag about.

Part-time affiliate – I’m making good side money.

Full-time affiliate – I make a living from affiliate marketing.

The Results: 33% of surveyors were totally new to affiliate marketing, 50% were making a few sales, and 17% were making good side money.

2. Based on your current activity level, please rate your current level of expertise in the following affiliate marketing subjects.

Alright!  I’m back from vacation, refreshed and ready to get back to sharing with you all.

First, I have a few videos to show you about our vacation.  The first video is a short 30 second video that I created at Animoto.com.  The other videos were created by my son, Ethan.  He wanted me to tell you that “he hopes you enjoy the videos”. These are all short videos, with the longest video only 37 seconds.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6Oti8NG7c

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kGpfTc4ALo

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hE9zXoeMw

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnZlXGaJEpE

There you have it, videos of our vacation.  We all had a wonderful time! I’m already for the next vacation.

Now onto the update for my niche site selling physical products. Since I have been on vacation I have only social bookmarked the two pages on the site. There have been a total of 22 visitors to one page and 34 to the other page. No sales yet.

I will be working this week by finding and posting to forums in the niche and also by blog commenting. If time permits this week I will also write a couple of articles and maybe find some sites where I can guest post.