Advantages Of Affiliate Marketing

The main advantage of affiliate marketing is that the entire sales process is completely hands off. Once you refer a customer to a business and the customer makes a purchase, your job is done. You don’t have to worry about product fulfillment. You don’t have to worry about customer support. You just get paid your commission and that’s it. With a dropshipped online store, the customer is effectively making a purchase from “your store” even though you are not the one fulfilling the product. As a result, you are responsible if the customer does not get their shipment on time. You are responsible if the product is defective or arrives broken. Therefore, you will have to devote a certain amount of time dealing with customer issues especially if your dropship vendors are not reliable. In addition, with a dropshipped store you have to setup a complete storefront that accepts credit cards and other forms of payment as opposed to affiliate marketing where all you have to do is throw up an informational site or blog. The amount of work required to start a dropshipped online store is definitely more than the effort required to be an affiliate marketer.