What Does Passion mean in the context of affiliate marketing?It means that you are interested in your topic and can find a sustainable amount of topics to write about to prevent boredom setting in.

Is it imperative?

Yes it is for me because I found out the hard way what happens when there is no passion there. I had a look around at niche marketing and in those days niches were top level domain niches.

I concluded that acne was a profitable niche and there was no real product to sell. I spent four months researching how acne could be cured by diet alone. I wrote the definitive acne cure diet, as a product. Then I came to write the web site content. After five articles I knew that it was not going to go anywhere.

I was bored and tired of the subject. I did get out of it and it did do me a lot of good, but it was a steep learning curve.

I had to outsource 400+ articles and i had to get them proofread as well, I could not even be bothered to read them. Now there are people who say that you can't outsource articles and retain control of your content.

I have never heard so mush tosh in all my life, anyone who thinks that has ever outsourced content. I grant you I did not put out a contract for 400 x five hundred word articles. I did my keyword research diligently and then I drew up a prototype for each article.

The prototype I think went something like this. Mention the keyword in the first sentence and then tell them what the article was going to say. have an introduction of one paragraph with the keyword in. A five or six paragraph article body and a end with the keyword in once, then a summation of about 100- 150 words to recap on what you have just told them. Don't try that now that no longer works but at the time that was more or less the structure of a good converting article.

So the lesson here was I learned to outsource and I am still an outsource manager today as my Linkedin profile shows. I eventually could no longer maintain the website or even be bothered with it, but I still had a fantastic product. So that was another learning curve, I had to find out to be an affiliate manager. I still do that today and it taught me how to keep a product in the top ten of the product list for Clickbank for over three years.

So yes without passion you can make a profit but be aware that to be successful you need to outsource. I still have my outsourcing outline's and they still work today and I would be very happy to give them to anyone that can use them .

Most people who make a permanent living online do outsource. There are several reasons for this, something just don't float your boat interest wise, it is cheaper to outsource them than to waste your time doing them, there is too much to do especially when you have multiple domains.As you can see from the above graphic multiple domains mean more work

So yes unless you want to learn to outsource immediately then passion is a definite plus in niche selection I can tell you because I learned the hard way that it is better to do it yourself and learn exactly the system for your business before you outsource anything!