SPI 888: What's Working in Affiliate Marketing Right Now

Here's something kind of crazy. Nearly 50% of my overall revenue ever since I started online business in 2008 has come from affiliate marketing by connecting the audiences that I've built to products and services that are meant to help those people. And that's always going to be the golden rule, right? Whenever you have an audience in mind or a target market, you want to know what is helpful. And what will be a solution for their problems?

Something that would make their life more convenient. That's the golden rule of affiliate marketing. Don't promote something that doesn't actually help the target audience that you have, right? If you do that, you are breaking that rule, you're going to break the trust that you've earned or are trying to earn with that audience. Always come from a place of service.

However, Let me just say this, times have changed a little bit. We are now in 2025. And if you're still trying to build a following first, trying to build a massive social media subscribership or YouTube subscribership before you start affiliate marketing, you're doing it backwards. If you're gonna wait until you have thousands of subs to make your first dollar, you're missing out on money that you can be making right now.

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