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

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: Shannon Mattern, founder of Web Designer Academy:

We chatted with with Shannon, founder of Web Designer Academy ($42K/month). In our interview, Shannon says:

Get a second opinion from someone you trust with business advice when you aren’t sure if you’re making the right call.

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#2: 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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#3: 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.

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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:

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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#5: 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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Starting An Affiliate Marketing Business: Everything You Need To Know

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