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Affiliate marketing is one of the most interesting ways to make money online. Even though there are tons of ways to make money on the internet, the affiliate marketing business is the one way that has so many advantages that you begin to wonder why everyone is not doing it.

Having said all that, here are 12 reasons to be in online affiliate marketing.

1. Make passive income.

This is probably the most important reason why you should go into affiliate marketing. You literally make money while you sleep. There's nothing more to add

2. No Customers To Deal With.

Customer service issues which include taking telephone calls, order tracking, addressing complaints, dealing with unsatisfied customers, etc are handled by the vendor. The vendor [or merchant] takes care of all that. The only job you do is to send people [traffic] to his site. What happens [ or does not happen] after they buy is not really your business.

3. Ability To Rinse And Repeat

Once you discover the best formula that works for your affiliate marketing business, all you now do is keep applying the same formula for all products you want to promote.

4. No Products Delivery. This is mostly the case if you are promoting digital products such as ebooks, software, online courses among others. Even if you are promoting physical products, the merchant handle the delivery to the customer.

5. No Product Creation

All you do is register with an affiliate marketing network, choose a program that has the potential to make you money, and start promoting that product. You don't even need to know who created the product!

6.High Profit Potential.

The amount of money you make in affiliate marketing is directly linked to the amount of time you put into your business. If you can developed a format for driving massive targeted traffic to your website, then the sky is the limit for the profits you will make.

7. Low Start Up Cost

There are probably 3 main costs you may bear when setting up an affiliate website. These are for your domain name, hosting and traffic generation [if you are using pay per click advertising] And you could get thm free with a blog

8. No Payment Processing.

Forget refunds, taking details, names, addresses, emails, credit card numbers. Your merchant handles it all. All you do is sit back while the money gets put into your account. That simple!

9. No Huge Site

No need to build a huge website of 1000s of pages so as to make money. Even one [1] single webpage is enough to make you a lot money in the affiliate marketing business.

10. Easy To Become An Expert

In online affiliate marketing you can just promote one product at a time [recommended], which ensures that you concentrate and focus on that product. You can become an expert in that field.

11. No Commitment To Merchant

Unlike an employee in some company, you, as an affiliate marketer doesn't have to take permission from the merchant before going on holiday.

12. Automatic Commissions

You don't need to request for your commission. It is automatic. Whether the recession is blowing everything down, you will be paid your commission as long as your efforts brought the sale.