Affiliate Marketing Business

9 Tips For Starting A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own affiliate marketing business? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting an affiliate marketing business:

Where to start?

-> Affiliate marketing business plan
-> How to finance an affiliate marketing business?
-> How much does it cost to start an affiliate marketing business?
-> Pros and cons of an affiliate marketing business

Need inspiration?

-> Other affiliate marketing business success stories
-> Affiliate marketing business slogans
-> Affiliate marketing business names
-> Affiliate marketing business Instagram bios

Other resources

-> Profitability of an affiliate marketing business
-> Email templates for an affiliate marketing business
-> Blog post ideas for an affiliate marketing business

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting an affiliate marketing business:

#1: Spencer Mecham, founder of Buildapreneur:

We chatted with with Spencer, founder of Buildapreneur ($80K/month). In our interview, Spencer says:

My business is currently yielding more than half a million dollars a year in profits. And it does that with very little expense.

Additionally:

You need to spend time learning, but then you need to go out and create and apply what you learned as soon as you can. You will learn a lot more from that experience. Then once you are stuck, you need to go out and find someone that's done it and start again. Learn, apply.

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#2: Jan Kovac, founder of Casino Guru:

We chatted with with Jan, founder of Casino Guru ($773K/month). In our interview, Jan says:

Prioritize and consider the real value of improvements before deciding to act on them.

Additionally:

People sometimes do things differently than you would do them yourself and that does not necessarily mean that they have done it worse.

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#3: Jamie I.F., founder of increasing.com:

We chatted with with Jamie, founder of increasing.com ($40K/month). In our interview, Jamie says:

I’ve learned that to be on top of my game, I have to continuously test out new ideas and experiment with what could work.

Additionally:

It will take you at least 3,000 hours of repeated technician work to become excellent at almost anything, so be dogged, determined, and also curious

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#4: Jan Kovac, founder of Casino Guru:

We chatted with with Jan, founder of Casino Guru ($773K/month). In our interview, Jan says:

The funny part about any SEO-based business is that you can’t really make decent planning. Do you plan to improve some parts of your website and grow? Well, good luck with that, almighty G can have completely different plans for you.

Additionally:

Ask a lot of questions and listen to the answers rather than preach your opinions. Be always ready to change your opinion if it seems to be wrong, be open-minded.