On my way to work today I was recalling how I fell ass backwards into this industry. I started in Graphic Design and had a job maintaining the company website. The lone affiliate manager quit and walked out. My boss turned to me and asked, “Can you do this?”

Now I knew nothing about online marketing at the time. But I took the job and went home and read everything I could possibly find on affiliate marketing. Back then, there wasn’t much. But this August will be eight years for me in this industry and I’ve never looked back.

I’ve had the opportunity to talk to quite a few people in the biz. I usually try to find out how they got involved in affiliate marketing. Like me, most of you have fallen into this industry on a path to somewhere else.

So I thought I’d ask for a shortened version of your story. Whether you are an affiliate, affiliate manager or whatever – How did you get into affiliate marketing?

What is your story?