Built From Scratch: Affiliate Income for Beginners

by Brian Turner

Built From Affiliate Income for Beginners
A real-world guide to earning online without hype, fluff, or a following.

You don’t need to be an influencer, run ads, or fake it online to start earning affiliate income. You just need a strategy that works — one built on trust, real tools, and systems you can actually sustain.

Built From Affiliate Income for Beginners is a no-fluff starter guide for creators, side hustlers, and first-time entrepreneurs who want to earn online the right way — with content that helps, tools they actually use, and links that quietly work in the background.

Inside this book, you’ll

How to choose affiliate products that fit your life — not just your feed

The one-page system for planning content that doesn’t feel like selling

Why your first $10 matters more than your first 10,000 followers

How to build a “Tools I Use” page that earns while you sleep

The difference between spamming links and telling stories that convert

How to track, test, and stack small wins into long-term income

Written during a personal and professional rebuild, this book is part field guide, part creative strategy, and part personal
You don’t need permission to start building.

You’ll also get bonus worksheets, caption templates, and access to real-life examples through the author’s live affiliate tools page.

Whether you’re a total beginner or finally ready to monetize what you already talk about, Built From Affiliate Income for Beginners shows you how to start small — and build with intention.

71 pages, Paperback

Published July 23, 2025

About the author

Brian Turner is the author of a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, and five collections of poetry— Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise; with The Wild Delight of Wild Things, The Goodbye World Poem, and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook due out from Alice James Books in Fall, 2023. He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres. A musician, he’s written and recorded albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and American Undertow with The Retro Legion. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he’s received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.