Expert: Richard Seltzer - 3/9/2009

Question
Hello.  I am reading a book on affiliate marketing and am saving for a website regarding Debt Credit Repair or Online Drugstore portal.  I am in the beginning just hunting for ideas and do some affiliate sales with a site I am planning to launch in about 4 to 5 months.  Can one really make money with  affiliate marketing?  How do I come up with content?  How can you market a site like this?  Any advice would help.

Answer
You would need many many visitors with a clearly identifiable common interest in order to make money with affiliate marketing these days. And building such an audience could be very difficult and very expensive. And 4 to 5 months is an eternity in Internet terms -- it's very hard to gage what the market climate will be and what the competition will be that far ahead.  If it will take you that long to get started, you should really think about doing something else instead.

For detailed advice about trying to do business on the Internet see my book Web Business Bootcamp, which is available for free online at http://www.samizdat.com/bootcamp.html

Best wishes.

Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com