Affiliate Marketing in 2025 Explained for Beginners!

If you’re wondering how creators are turning everyday content into income, you’re in the right place.

I’m Lori Ballen. I’m a digital marketer, a solopreneur, and someone who built a business around freedom—financial, creative, and personal. I don’t have a team. I don’t run launches. I make money while I film a TikTok, go for a bike ride, or sit in silence with my cats. And affiliate marketing is a big part of how I do that.

This isn’t a deep-dive course. It’s not a blueprint or a list of “top ten tricks.” This is an introduction. It’s how I started, how I’ve evolved, and how I still use affiliate marketing today to create recurring income across my content.

I’m going to show you how I built it. The blog posts I wrote. The tutorials I filmed. The shift into short-form, shoppable content across platforms like TikTok, Pinterest, Amazon, YouTube Shopping, LTK, and Instagram.

This isn’t theory. This is what I actually do.

You’ll see how affiliate marketing works, how it fits into different content styles, and how to get started without overthinking it.

Want to turn your content into commissions without launching a product or burning out? Grab this $7 ebook and get the exact system I use to make daily affiliate sales—using tools you already know like YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, and Amazon. No fluff. Just strategy that works.

https://ballenpublishing.com/products/affiliate-marketing-content-to-commissions

Let’s get into it.
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