If you are an affiliate marketer, and you don’t own a business you are a sole proprietor. Basically that means that everything you earn every month is your income. You can still write off certain things such as advertising costs, but incorporating yourself is good route to take.

Why would you want to incorporate yourself? It has many great advantages. Say for instance if you advertise something and then the advertiser gets upset with you because of copyright infringement. If your a sole proprietor, they can take you for everything you have. All your assets, your house car clothing…everything. However if you own a business, then all your affiliate earnings are the businesses earnings, not yours. So if you would happen to get sued from that company, all they can take is the assets of the business. If your a full time affiliate marketer, all your money would be gone however at least you would still have your house and car.

How do you incorporate? Most lawyers can do this for a small fee on top of their hourly rate, however if you make a quick search you can find plenty of online companies who will do this for a fee. Here are a couple I found:

www.legalzoom.com
www.incorporate.com
http://www.incorporatetime.com/

It is really not that expensive, and although if you were doing some shady things your affiliate network would probably kick you out first, it is still nice to have the peace of mind.

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