I ran a modestly successful affiliate site from 2002-2006. I did very little work, and could have done much more to succeed (in retrospect), but it did provide 20% of my income during that time. I recently attempted to relaunch the site after a few years away, but found that the market is much tighter than before (I made only a handful of sales during a two month test run; I also believe that consumers are now more skeptical of affiliate marketing sites.
I think that given the right market and some hard work, it's possible to make enough to live from affiliate marketing, but I've found that I prefer to work with friends on more ambitious projects.
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I ran a modestly successful affiliate site from 2002-2006. I did very little work, and could have done much more to succeed (in retrospect), but it did provide 20% of my income during that time. I recently attempted to relaunch the site after a few years away, but found that the market is much tighter than before (I made only a handful of sales during a two month test run; I also believe that consumers are now more skeptical of affiliate marketing sites.
I think that given the right market and some hard work, it's possible to make enough to live from affiliate marketing, but I've found that I prefer to work with friends on more ambitious projects.