Originally Posted by
jammanxc
well, if affiliate marketing dies out, there's always network marketing! Multi Level Marketing opportunities!
Become your own bentoffers
or wait, your own cashback portals!
Originally Posted by
jspira
The barriers to entry are well known: a computer and an Internet connection. That is pretty low.
Originally Posted by
Astrophsx
A limiting factor on the number of sign ups has to be the ability to show people how to meet the spending requirement for the bonus. It would make sense to me that a majority of sign ups would come from repeat business. That is to say, if you can show someone how to churn cards and meet the required spending... they will be more likely to use more than one of your links.. and probably account for a large % of your overall cc sign ups.
If you removed all manufactured spending methods I think it would be more like it was before 2010. There is an area of travel blogging that puts more focus on trip reports. Usually bloggers that are interviewed on millionmilesecrets that don't have enough traffic to get into the referral business.
Most of the bloggers today have been interviewed by MMS. The barrier[s] to entry are how well you can write and how popular you can become so you can get links.