Below is an excerpt from an article on affiliate marketing that was posted on MSNBC.com last week .  The content may not be new if you are already involved with affiliate marketing but it does have some good information.

A staggering $2.1 billion in affiliate marketing fees were paid to blog and website owners in 2008. This finding in a recent study by Jupiter Research confirms what many savvy Internet marketers have known for a while: Affiliate marketing has become one of the top business opportunities online because the startup costs are so low and the income you generate can be mind-blowing.

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