Part time affiliate day Job survey

July 2nd, 2009 Affiliate Blogger Posted in All articles, Other Stuff | 1 Comment »

I’d recently asked affiliates particularly those who do affiliate marketing part time, what their day job was.  More out of curiosity than anything else.

As it turns out – the results were quite revealing and indicate that affiliate marketing still isn’t something that really the general public are aware of. At the time of writing  here are the results:

Full time affiliate		18	38.30%
IT professional		9	19.15%
Retail (store clerk etc.)		2	4.26%
Professional – Doctor, lawyer etc.		4	8.51%
Student		1	2.13%
marketing/advertising (use this if you’re network staff)		11	23.40%
civil service		0	0%
part time work		0	0%
banking		0	0%
unemployed		2	4.26%

indicating part time affiliate are either mostly working in IT or working in the industry in a non-affiliate capacity, i was surprised that only 1 affiliate was a student, as I would have thought affiliate marketing would be an ideal part-time job, i know I would have done it had I realised at the time! I was surprised that there were part time affiliates who elected Professional as their day job, i would have thought these individuals would be raking it in with stable well paid jobs. It’s reassuring to see there are a few unemployed users who are taking up affiliate marketing, it make sense after all its got low overheads, its not that difficult and actually is more time intensive than anything else, perhaps affiliate marketing is the solution to unemployment?

I’m wondering what this data could be used for, could this mean networks could offer incentives to support affiliates with different day jobs? Could affiliates form a loose commune where skills are shared? what do you think?

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