Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money on the internet. While the opportunities are endless, you can make good amount of money by very concentrated efforts towards your targeted niche. SWOT Analysis of Affiliate Marketing: Strength: The major strength of this unique online marketing is it allows you to utilize your full energy towards marketing only as the product developer (merchant)are someone else and you enjoy the cash flow benefits of promoting or recommending good products or services. Weakness: Every coin has an opposite side, and on the other face of the coin, I could like to call upon the requirement of sufficient knowledge and reaching the critical traffic in your website marketing for your targeted niche. Opportunity: Is not the opportunity of affiliate marketing endless? More products are coming in and there are more credit card ready customers joining every day. I can see an increasing trend of this for a long time. With an even increasing market and the global nature of the web market there will be always plenty of room for a new affiliate marketer or an existing affiliate marketer to increase his volume. Threat: While the opportunities are endless, there is a darker side of the moon as well. Although the root of the threat is lack of knowledge, it could be expanded onto the current situation of web. If you search for affiliate marketing on a web search engine, you may find more than one million websites offering some form of affiliate internet products or some kind of means to promote your website. Wish you all the best for future endeavors.