Affiliate Marketing Income – The Not-so-fast Path To Making Money Online Without Your Own Products
Affiliate Marketing has been touted as a way to make money fast – without the bother of needing your own product. It’s indeed possible to make money with affiliate marketing, and there are a few rare affiliate programs where the money, IF earned, appears quickly. However, they are the exception rather than the rule. More often than not, the money appears after a significant time lag.
At Clickbank, for example, the number one affiliate program, the money is sent out two weeks after the end of each accounting period (of which they are two per month). Most of the others have similar rules, with some taking even longer, up to “the beginning of the month after the month after the month during which the purchase was made.”
In addition, most programs also have minimums that have to be reached before you get anything at all. Of course if you have earned just pennies, the delay won’t make much of a difference.
Even MyHelpHub.com, which somebody had touted as a much faster-paying program, doesn’t pay more quickly. Maybe...