Affiliate Marketing vs MLM

Hi Guys, this is James Young and I am here today to talk to you about MLM and Affiliate Marketing. And this video is mainly made to clear up a few things for people particularly on YouTube. Those of you who follow me on YouTube, I think some of you are a little bit confused or maybe not as informed on how I make money as people who follow my blog and websites because I am getting a lot of questions for my opinion on various MLM programs and MLM is something I do not do. I am an Affiliate Marketer and I make money as an affiliate. MLM which stands for Multi-level Marketing is where you have a product that is being pushed through multiple levels. So, let’s say you sign up for a program and they have a product that you are going to sell. And, you make money every time you sell this product. But, you also make money when you recruit people to sign up for the program and sell. So, when they sign up for the program you make money and when they sell product you make money and that continues on 3, 4, 5, 6 levels deep. So, you got this team or this downline of people that are selling for you and you make money on your sales and your team sales. That is the general concept of MLM. Affiliate marketing, which is what I do, and I make a full time living doing it. It’s more of a one on one or one to one relationship where I sign up for a company, just say Amazon.com’s affiliate program and they give me the affiliate links to promote on my website or blog and anytime a product is …