You might be wondering, though, why sellers/product owners need affiliates when they can promote the products themselves? Why share a percentage of their profit with someone?
The good news is learning how to make money with affiliate marketing is fairly simple: Step 1: Register for Affiliate Marketing Programs Step 2: Create Your Affiliate Marketing Library Step 3: Promote your Affiliate Marketing Products No barrier to entry: You can literally sign up today and start promoting offers. No hidden costs: There’s zero cost to sign up. No risk: There’s no huge investment of time. No fulfillment: No customer support service needed. Monetize now: You can start promoting today. Serve your audience: You become a “resource” to your audience. Learn what your audience wants to buy: You can create your own products and services once you know what they want help with! Learn how to sell: Selling is part of operating a business and a skill you can develop. Income is mostly passive: You can earn affiliate income today from a blog post you wrote several months ago.

If you opt to start without an affiliate network, you’ll need to track down the best affiliates using your own means. Social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn should be your first two points of all, plus whatever resource leaders in your industry employ. To simplify this step, you can also form a partnership with a network that has experience helping companies in your vertical.
Do keep in mind that a lot of factors fall into play here - your audience size, platform, traction, engagement rates, specialty, etc. Each of these might hinder or increase the numbers quite dramatically.