Top 6 Affiliate Marketing Success Stories: How They Started And Succeed

In this post, you will learn about Top 6 affiliate marketing success stories of people on how they started and succeeded in their affiliate marketing business.

Are you looking for encouragement to start an affiliate marketing business?

It must have been very hard as a beginner when you venture into starting a new business online especially affiliate marketing and you later find out that its difficult.

Not to worry. To pick up the courage from where you stopped, in this post you will learn from 6 people’s affiliate marketing success stories. How they started, their failures, what they worth and how they became successful.

Learning from them can help you to get started and also become successful as an affiliate marketer.

6 Affiliate Marketing Millionaire

1. Adam Enfroy

Adam Enfroy is a successful affiliate marketing blogger. He earns his income from his blog he started in 2019. Before he started his blog he had to go through some series of training that will enable him come out successful.

He never rushed into starting a blog. He had some experiences in various field such as a digital marketer, as an agency, e-commerce and even SaaS experience.

Another great place he worked that really made him successful is that he was an affiliate manager in one of the affiliate marketing companies.

He had the privileges’ of seeing how successful people who were affiliates were promoting their products. As an affiliate manager he got to know various ways to succeed as an affiliate marketer an that gave him a leverage in his own business.

He took his time, expertise, knowledge and his life experience when growing up to focus on one goal. He was making money as a digital marketer in the company he was working and wanted a big start that will help him live a lifestyle of freedom.

In 2018, he was making a lot of money from his job but later realized that he was not experiencing the joy of it. Then it done on him that it was as if he was in prison; getting all he wants but never the freedom to express it.

So, he said in his own words “Everything I learned (and everything I struggled with along the way) was the only path to get me where I am today.

He realized he could start a blog.

By January, 2019 he launched his first blog. This was because he wanted to start writing and had limitations from sites he was posting on.

His aim for starting a blog was to make a lot of money within the space of 3-6 months. His focus as he started his blog were:

1. To build pillar contents
2. Build backlinks to his sites from high authority sites.
3. Increase his traffic form google search and lastly
4. Monetize his blog

This was to be done in the space of 6 months.

Along the process of setting up his blog, he kept track of everything. In the space of 3 months he has already had 500 backlinks and 7,600 visitors to his site per month.

Then in 6 months he had obtain 3,000 backlinks to his site with 44,000 visitors to his site per month.

With all these reports, in the space of nine months he had started making $35k per month from his blog.

He quit his full time job after scaling his blog to $35k per month and was able to travel to Europe, Asia and Australia living the dream of his life.

Adam Enfroy now makes up to $200k per month from his blog. From the time he started to 2 years ago he has made over $1 million without spending money on advertisement.

Forbes, Business Insider and Entrepreneur took notice of his success. Now he has created his course teaching well over 70k blogging students and gaining up to 500k readers to his blog.

Also Read This: Beginners Guide To Starting A Blog

2. Darren Rowse

He is the owner of the blog titled problogger.com.

Darren Rowse is an Australian living in Melbourne, married with 3 kids.

His life was not always to be a blogger. He was a part-time minister in his church where he was working with young people in the space of 3 days a week.

Though his salary wasn’t enough for him and his family. He didn’t only work as a minister, he also worked for an online department store where he was doing the cleaning, packing, unpacking and other menial jobs.

With his second job it helped in a little bit at home. Addition to his work, he added another job where he was working as a casual laborer.

With all of these running in his life, he had to seek for what will actually help him in life because at that time he was doing a degree course which he was to complete and pay for.

Blogging became a hobby for him as he started his first blog post in 2002. Blogging had a great impact in his life after 12 months on it.

This made him to discovered about AdSense program and Amazon affiliate program when he accidentally started a digital photography blog.

His blog became more popular among his church environs and he discovered that running a blog really cost money when it involves the cost of ISP and hosting and also having a good blog designs.

He attracted thousands of readers to his blog until in the month of October his blog he earned an average of $1.40 per day. This continued until his earning began to grow.

With the increase in his income he began thinking that having a blog is definite like a part-time job. As he said in his own words that “The beauty of blogging income is that it earns you money 7 days per week so totaled $140 per week”

The Amazon affiliate program and Google AdSense he joined was brining him good money and exchanging its currency to that of Australian currency was huge for him.

Because of the profit and the better part of what blogging was doing for him, he decided to increase his efforts by posting more and also learning more about SEO and ad optimization.

His effort was not in vain. He did it and by May of 2004, he was making $32 per day and it increase by the end of June where he made his first $1000 in a month from blogging.

Darren Rowse still continued as a part time at the church he worked and with his blog. As he continued to use 2 days for his blog and 3 days at church, he continued adding blog post and did what he need best on his blog while his earning increased.

In September, 2004 he launched his new blog Problogger which he eventually turned him into a fulltime blogger.

Darren Rowse, is not only a full time blogger, he is also a public speaker and an author of the book Problogger: Secrets for blogging your way to a six-figure income.

With his blog from when he started he has made from $20,000 to $80,000 in a year in the space of 12 years.

Right now, Darren Rowse is a six-figure income earner which earns form two of his blogs: Problogger and the Digital photography school.

3. Michelle Schroeder-Gardner

Here is a 33 year old mum who makes her living from her blog and she is one of the most successful blogger in the industry.

Michelle is a financial analyst who loves her job and was making $40,000 a year from her job at the age of 22. At the same time she was in college and struggling to pay her student loan debt .

She went into blogging not knowing what she was doing but decided to monitor and share her success on her financial goals.

Down the road, she created the blog making sense of cents. This blog has made her financially free and be able to pay her student loan debt.

Making sense of cent started as a hobby to her and few months later she started writing sponsored post for companies she new other bloggers were making success from. Her first income was $100 which she made from a sponsored post.

Over time her blog began reaching 50,000 visitors a month. She spent her time and effort on her blog by studying other bloggers and posting consistently to increase her reach.

What was ringing her money from her blog was how she monetized her blog, using sponsored post and her online course she created.

According to her words, affiliate marketing brings in 50% of her revenue, while her online course brings in 20% and the rest from her sponsored post and display ads which she displays on her blog.

Within the space of 2 years, Michelle was earning from $5000 to $10,000 from her blog, which was more than what she was earning from her job.

Because of this she decided to quit her job and cleared her loan making her focusing more on her blog.

She realized that increase audience is what will bring in more passive income to her which made her focus on increasing her social media presence such Facebook, Pinterest and email subscribers.

With her high increase in traffic to her website, she now publish fresh contents once or twice in a week.

In her income report, her blog now brings in over $1,000,000 per year from 2018. Her and her husband travels across the USA on a sailboat.

Her online courses which are making sense of affiliate marketing and making sense of sponsored post has helped her earn over a $1,000,000 from its beginning of creation till now.

Michelle, has been featured on many websites such as Forbes, CNBC’s, Business insiders, Orpah’s, Reader’s digest, MSN and a lot of others.

Here are few points you can learn from her as she says:

1. Write the way you talk.
2. Be consistent in posting.
3. Increase your income streams.
4. Always help people.

Michelle is one successful blogger anyone can follow.

4. Matthew Woodward

Matthew Woodward is an award winner in SEO specialty. He specializes in ranking website on google on page one.

Matthew Woodward started creating website long before Google and YouTube existed. He never thought the internet will be a means to making money in the future.

Before his creation of his website, he was in the cooperate industry where he was doing data entry for an ecommerce company, which helped grew the company to a million dollar company.

With his unique skills in building website, writing, video production and building communities he used to help thousands of people.

In 2012, Matthew launched his website matthewwoodward.co.uk where he teaches his SEO tactics to help people rank on google and how to et backlinks. Also, he gets involve in teaching how to start a blog and into affiliate marketing.

Most of his traffic are all organic traffic from google and with the increase of his visitors to his website he has earn quit a lot from the internet.

Before, he built his website and became successful, he had to quit his job which made others to tell him that he did a great mistake quitting. This made him push forward and never listen to them.

Now with his expertise, skills of digital marketing, SEO specialist, affiliate marketer he has created a successful blog that helps thousands of readers improve their website traffic and earn money from their blog.

In August 2012 before creating his blog, he was browsing for information around digital marketing blogs which he came across Matt Cutt’s video.

In the video Matt Cutt’s talked about building quality content and not backlinks. That contents will attract links to itself. So, he decided to build an SEO and digital marketing blog.

Here are few steps he learnt from watching Matt Cutt’s video:

1. Create a blog and establish yourself as an authority.
2. Do something that is unique/different/original.
3. Create content that is useful/helpful to the community.
4. Answers common questions in your niche.
5. Publish original research.
6. Create videos.
7. Publish how to guides and tutorials.
8. Create helpful resources.

These where tips that helped him successful back in the days. With them he made so much progress and made more money online as shown in his income report.

The success of his blog had made him published hundreds of SEO and blogging trainings that has helped a lot of people grow their business online.

Matthew Woodward has built a highly successful blog and created services to help other people grow their business and how he can help them.

Also, he has created online courses such as the 90 days SEO course that shows anyone who is likely to know the full detail of how to do SEO and rank their websites in just 90 days.

5. David Sharp

David Sharp story is an inspiring one. He has grown to become one of the leading internet marketer in the affiliate marketing industry.

His story goes back as a young lad in school. Never willing to stay in class for up to 6 hours to listen to the teacher.

He was unstable and never wanting to learn. Though he had a dream to become a professional baseball player, but all that dream shattered when he dropped out of school.

What lead to his drop out was that he went into high school drug and drinking. He was always consoling his problems with such habits of taking drugs and drinking.

Finally, as a teenager he became a father and never able to pursue schooling and becoming a professional baseball player.

His drinking didn’t stop as a young teenage father.

Over the years David sharp got rid of the drinking and drugs and pursued the lifestyle of a digital marketer.

In the span of 10 years he has built his skills as a digital marketer and venture into building a multimillion dollar business that help a lot of thousands of people build a successful online business and earning good amount of money.

David Sharp is the founder of Legendary Marketer which its mission is to help people start an online business or grow an existing business using cutting edge sales, marketing and management strategies.

With legendry marketer, he is able to provide with well detailed trainings and courses educating people with proven strategies to scale their business.

Also, he brings in qualified coaches in the internet marketing industries to be part of his team with high quality products that will help anyone to succeed.

His beliefs is that there are no magic pills, but to be consistent and commitment with hard work to achieve what you want in life and business.

6. Alex Nerney & Lauren McManus

This two couple are the founders of both website create and go and advocadu.com.

Both are graduates from University of Arkansa and University of Central Florida as a Business administrator and an accountant respectively.

For Alex Nerney after graduating he started his first blog which was a flop and he learnt a lesson from its experience while Lauren decided to quit her 9 to 5 job to start a career in blogging.

Alex joined Lauren in helping build a successful blog.

Not only was he able to build his avocadu blog to a six figure income and became so successful in it that they had to launch another blog called createandgo with Lauren.

Lauren was successful on Pinterest that she got up to 500,000 views to her createandgo website and turned it into a six figure income website.

Both Alex and Lauren are full time bloggers. Their success has attracted well know bloggers and companies in the united states. They have been well feature in Forbes, Yahoo, Enterpreneur and INC.

Their blogs make money from a different source which make them achieve the six figure income range. Their stream of income are from a wide range of affiliate marketing products, online courses, and sponsored post.

They have trained thousands of students and helped them to grow their business and even start a blogging business.

With the use of their online course such as the Pinterest Avalanche which helps to drive traffic using Pinterest, the Six figure blogging course which helps to grow your blog to become a six figure income blog and the lunch your blog course which teaches every beginner who wants to start a blog on how to get started with blogging.

As at the end of 2021, their website has bring in a total of $1,000,000 to them. Now their aim is to increase their income and keep helping people to achieve their goals with their blogging business.

Affiliate Marketing Success FAQ

Q: Can affiliate marketing make you rich?

Ans: Affiliate marketing can make you rich, but it takes time to become rich with it. Affiliate marketing involves a process and strategies to be able to master it.

It is not a get-rich-scheme. You can’t do affiliate marketing today and expect to be rich the next day. Affiliate marketing is a business model that requires you to referrer people to other people’s product and making a commission from them when they make a purchase.

It all depends on the methods you use to earn commissions fast and what medium you use to bring in referrals for more sales to your affiliate product.

Q: How long does it take to make money with affiliate marketing?

Ans: To make money with affiliate marketing does not have specific timing. You can make money today and another day you might not make.

There are some people that are into affiliate marketing and over a period of a year they haven’t made a single dollar. While others it will take them over a period of months some weeks while others could take them 2 to 5 years.

Many people who have not succeeded in affiliate marketing give up easily  because its hard for them.

Affiliate marketing involve a process and step by step methods to be successful and to make substantial income with it. It also takes patient and applying the right formula.

Q: Can you be successful with affiliate marketing?

Ans: Yes, anyone can be successful with affiliate marketing. Someone who is a successful affiliate reaches a certain level, this all depends on the type of affiliate program he is into.

There are some affiliates that are called super affiliates because this sets of affiliates have made a lot of sales selling affiliate products online.

It takes gradual process for anyone to become successful as an affiliate. With more practice and more effort anyone can become successful as an affiliate marketer.

Q: Is affiliate marketing profitable in 2022?

Ans: Yes, affiliate marketing is still profitable in 2022. Many successful people have used so many types of medium to become successful and profitable in affiliate marketing.

Many successful affiliates have used blogging, drop-shipping, social media, SEO, email marketing, etc. to make affiliate marketing very profitable for them in 2022.

With this affiliate marketing success stories I believe you will be motivated to start your affiliate marketing business or continue if you have given up and  become successful.