Would you like to learn the top strategies of a successful affiliate marketer?

If you're looking to make a ton of money online, then the best option for the widest selection of people is undoubtedly affiliate marketing.

This is the online business model with the lowest barriers to entry. Anyone can learn it and anyone can master it. At the same time, it is potentially one of the most profitable business models you can use online and certainly much more profitable than blogging for ad cents revenue or similar. And this is a point that advertisers on Facebook often like to labor.

Chances are that you'll have seen plenty of adverts for online money-making schemes and programs, and no doubt nine out of 10 times they'll be based around affiliate marketing.

You'll know these ads if you see them. They're the ones where people talk to you from their private yacht and tell you how they make a six-figure salary in just a few hours of work each week.

Likewise, you'll have probably seen the videos of online billionaires talking about their moneymaking systems while wearing smart suits in very pimped out offices.

They've created a digital empire all on their own using affiliate marketing techniques. And now they're rich and powerful and you'll probably want to be them.

But is this all true? How can you really accomplish all that through affiliate marketing? Is it really that easy or is there more to it than that? First of all, let's assess the claims about earnings. We don't have to guess at this. During the 2014 affiliate summit, over 1800 affiliate marketers answered a survey describing everything from their methods to their earnings. How much were they bringing in?

Well, only 46 percent earned less than 20000 dollars, while eight percent and 50 to 100000 dollars and 12 percent earned over 100000 dollars. At the very least, this shows that it's certainly very possible to earn big money for the rest of around the middle.

But note that 19 percent elected not to answer at all. What's also interesting here, though, is the sheer spread of earnings affiliate marketing is bringing in from 20000 to 100000 dollars and beyond, which you just don't find in traditional careers.