Pros and Cons of Affiliate Marketing

Pros

Affiliate Marketing is a billion dollar business.
Affiliate Marketing has a very low start-up cost. Most affiliate programs are free to join. There are no supplies or inventory.
You only need to bring in clients and customers.
You don’t need to be a marketing expert or have a lot of experience to get started in affiliate marketing.
You don’t have to quit your current job to get started and get your feet wet. Makes for a great secondary source of income.
You have the flexibility to work with the programs that are proving to be successful.
It provides a passive income which means that you are able to make money 24/7 from anywhere in the world that you are able to make an internet connection. Making money even while you sleep. How is that for a great job?

Affiliate Marketing is not a get rich quick scheme. It can take a considerable amount of time to generate a sufficient amount of clients or customers to produce any significant amount of money.
If you don’t have or know how to generate traffic to your website or blog , affiliate marketing will not be easy.
Most Affiliate programs will require you to make a certain amount of commissions before you will be paid.
There are other cons to affiliate marketing but these are a few of the ones that you need to know about before jumping into affiliate marketing.
This being said, affiliate marketing is still one of best ways available for an individual to make money and possibly even large sums of money while working at home.