Ever seen videos of people claiming they can make a million a day posting a few ads’? If so then you’ve come into contact with affiliate marketing. Sure affiliate marketing is not particularly likely to make you that much money unless you’re an absolute pro and as a general rule it will involve a lot more work than ‘posting a few ads a day’ particularly to begin with! But despite all this there is truth in the claim that you can earn an awful lot of money doing very little with affiliate marketing. In fact affiliate marketing is really the only legitimate tool you have to accomplish this kind of lifestyle. Affiliate marketing is simply the very easiest way to get set up with a money-generating business model that provides passive income and that doesn’t see you exchanging time for money. In other words whereas working in an office requires you to slave away at a desk in order for you to get paid by the hour, affiliate marketing is something that lets you earn cash while you’re asleep. You need to be smart setting it up but once you’ve done that successfully it will be automated.