by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Although I don’t make a fortune as an affiliate with Amazon and Apple, so far it’s proven to be reliable income. And it’s fairly passive income.
The only problem is that it’s something of a hassle. You run your links through the retailer’s affiliate URL link-maker, it assigns your affiliate code for credit, and then if someone clicks on your link, you make a commission from whatever they buy on the site during that shopping session. I do keep my affiliate links in a document so that I can just copy/paste them without having to run through the link-maker again, but it’s still a bit of a time suck. We also have to be careful to follow the retailers’ terms and conditions for use and be sure to put a disclosure on our site when we use these links.Continue reading