Affiliate Marketing Paid Our Unexpected Expense

 Affiliate Marketing Paid Our Unexpected Expense

Despite the fact that there’s been quite a few added expenses with our recent move, it was a jolly day last Thursday.  My hubby had to take his truck to the shop to get a new tire. (That part wasn’t so jolly.)  It wasn’t real costly, but I really wasn’t all that thrilled with yet another expense that took money out of our pocket, afterall I have a few ideas to decorate this new house, and a new tire wasn’t what I had in mind.

The jolly part comes now.  My favorite 7-year-old boy (that’s my youngest son) brought in the mail.  I had received a check for $40.04.  Hmm.  I wasn’t expecting any money.  I began to look the check over carefully and realized it was an affiliate company that I had signed up with some time ago.  In fact, I kind of placed my affiliate link on my site (smallbudgetadvertising.com) and eventually forgot about it.  So, I was really thrilled to see that I accumulated a small sum from an affiliate company that I wasn’t whole-heartily promoting.  I anxiously logged into my affiliate company’s site to see if I had accumulated anymore cash, and sure enough, money is in the making at this moment. 

Now, the moral of this story is not to brag about a small sum of $40, but rather to differ with the many folks out there that claim that affiliate marketing simply doesn’t work.  Yes, it can work if you’re really “working” at it properly.  But, sometimes it also works on it own when you’re targeting the right market.  I really don’t suppose I would have accumulated a small sum of money with an affiliate link had I been advertising “shampoo” to those interested in “online budget advertising”. And that’s the short moral of my story.