Come to my attention, from online forum, i found a posting from Hostmonster president, Matt Heaton. Matt was explaining how the affiliate system helps the company to grow fast, as we can see here, boost from 75,000 domains hosted to 100,000 domain hosted now. Hostmonster providing $65 affiliate commission to those that recommend friends or anyone to signup host monster hosting.
With these affiliate commission, basically hostmonster gain lots of promoter, people that work hard to recommend hostmonster over the internet. And with this strategy, they helps hostmonster to increase sales and increase reputation. This system is very profiting for host monster indead.
How about the affiliate side, are they earning that much? Fact is, affiliate life is totally depend on luck. This week you make a sales, not meaning next week you going to make another sales. Promotional effort and advertising cost is self absorb. If affiliate use PPC advertising network like google adwords, the affiliate are paying great amount of money to promote hostmonster hosting. From research, i found out that you will need to spend $2 to $3 to buy a click from adword. And if within 100 clicks that you get, you getting 2 signup. It will cost you $200, and you only gaining profit of $65×2 = $130. So, you can see here, you will need to have higher conversion rate. One sales within 50 clickthrough is not going to work, you will need a sales within 20 clicks, to reach break even state.
From basic, affiliate system is designed for small rewarding purpose. You get your friend to sign up, and hostmonster paid you. You cost nothing and get the $65, then yes this system works. Thus you can see, this is not an business to invested in. I wrote another review regarding hostgator affiliate losing $16k for promoting the system.
As i said, if you know someone that need a hosting plan, so thus quicky signup hostmonster account, and add the affiliate code to your website, or include it into your email. So that your friend can click on it, and use the link to purchase hosting plan from hostmonster. And then you will earn an easy $65 sweet painless money 
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