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I'd like to hear your opinions on long-term perspective of affiliate marketing field.
Is it here to stay?
Where does it have a potential to evolve?
WHY?
Just do not want to base my long-term business goals on something that may be gone in 2-3 years.
Thank you
Is affiliate marketing there to stay?
Yes.
"Affiliate Marketing", defined as "promoting goods or services in return for a commission rather than a salary" pre-dates the Internet by eons. It is here to stay.
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It is most certainly here to stay. However, I think that it is far easier to make money in aff. marketing now than it will be. As this industry matures and grows it will become very competitive and you will feel the squeeze from SEO savvy merchants, smarter search engines, and more and more affiliates.
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Affiliate marketing has always existed, probably two days after the first commercial exchange was made on this planet. In the brick and mortar world, they're known as distributors, resellers, agents and a number of other fancy terms.
Let me put it this way then - is it profitable for large e-businesses to have a lot of affiliates (eventhough some of them may happen to be rotten apples and try to "trick" the system), or is it insanely difficult to manage, and the field is going towards more controlled, few larger super-affiliates model?
Amazon is a bad example in this case as I think there are thousands of affiliate programs out there that are more profitable. As well as large companies that "pretend" to have affiliate program in order to basically get name recognition. I am talking about real stuff, where both sides can make realistic $$$.
