There’s been a little survey running on the 5 Star Affiliate Forum and I thought I would share some of the results with you. Surprisingly more people said they got started or found out about affiliate marketing through an employer than by any other source. Here are a couple of snippets.

my2cents said: “I imediately saw the potential for ecommerce.. so i studied and worked on figuring out how and what I was going to do… 2 years later I launched my first website using PPC made a nice pile of money out the gate… once i recieved my first check I was hooked… 10 years later I’ve got 100’s of niche websites… my wife thinks I crazy as a gooni bird, no one understands what i do to earn a living… and I like it that way“

James Nardell from AMWSO said: “A friend of mine was telling me about this thing called internet marketing he had just found out about. This was around 2 years ago… I’ve now got 2 affiliate websites, and I work for AMWSO as an affiliate manager… Glad i listened to my friend as at first i thought he was talking nonsense and it all sounded like some sort of MLM scam from the way he phrased it all… Funny how things work out”

Jennifer from Share Results said: “I started in a roundabout way - I was working for LookSmart as an editor on the MSN directories + their open directory project Zeal.com, and gradually learned more and more about Internet marketing. I started at Ecom Access in March 2005, and immersed myself in the retail affiliate world with our Share Results affiliate network. I truly believe the partner model is the future of marketing.”


So come to the 5 Star forum to read the rest and tell us:
How did you get into affiliate marketing?