You do not need a blog to make money as an Affiliate Marketer, but you are nuts if you do not make blogging a part of your affiliate marketing process.
With a personal blog you can gain exposure and make a strong and ‘personal’ connection with your audience by sharing personal stories and pictures about your day-to-day, especially if you live in a city that people want to know more about.
You can also blog about what most interests you, and share what you know about your particular subject, and then share new information that you discover about your particular subject.
Say you love rock and roll, then you could blog about rock and roll, blog about the bands that play rock and roll, blog about the singers and musicians, blog about particular rock songs, blog about the origins of rock songs, blog about where rock bands will be performing in the future.
You can take any subject that you love and blog until your fingers bleed while you grow your audience.
As more readers discover your blog you can invite your readers to SUBSCRIBE to your blog.
Then, as you build your online presence, and the more popular your blog becomes, the search engines will take notice and could feature your blog in their natural search results, making your blog more popular.
Creating a blog about a topic that excites you takes a lot of time, effort, and commitment, and it also takes learning about search engine optimization.
Of course, talking to people that you meet everyday about your blog and inviting them to log on to your blog and asking them to SUBSCRIBE is still a great way to make a personal connection and gain more exposure.
Blogging also requires that you develop your writing skills and researching your chosen subject that your blogging about.
Blogging is really not all that hard if you just put in the practice.
Don’t be to concerned about grammar or proper syntax, just work on developing good communication skills.
Blogging is all about telling stories, and if you can find a way to ‘naturally insert’ an affiliate link into your content (which is not hard at all) then you are on your way to increasing your profit potential as an Affiliate Marketer.