1. Affiliates - Products and Services

   Firstly decide on a niche market.
   
   For instance if your hobby is photography you would track down photographic sites & businesses on the internet and check whether they have affiliate programs - usually in small print at the bottom of the page.
   

   Once you have chosen the companies you want to represent you sign up with them as an affiliate. This is usually free as they are only too happy paying people commissions to sell their products.
   
   The merchants you join will give you an affiliate ID that would be used in links etc so that if a purchase is made through your link you will be credited with the sale/commission.
   
   I recommend signing up (for free and without hassle) as a Clickbank Affiliate immediately. ClickBank is extremely popular with affiliates as they offer a vast range of products and services to promote with good payouts, usually around $30,00 per sale.
   
   The other Affiliate Networks in the left hand menu are also top payers who I receive checks from regularly  
    

2. Internet Marketing - Google Adwords

   The next step is to decide how you are going to advertise and sell your chosen products
   
   You could market just one product but it is probably better not to have all your eggs in one basket.
   
   Taking the example above you could market cameras, film, image software (eg photoshop) etc whilst still staying within your niche market.
   
   Once again it is recommended that you set up a Google Adwords account so you can
   
   This will enable you to create & drive huge amounts of traffic to your chosen Clickbank products.
   
   
   
   However, you don't necessarily need a website as you could market products by effective use of an adwords or pay-per-click campaign that would direct traffic directly to your merchants' sites and products by using a Google Adwords campaign as above.
   
   This is a popular and extremely powerful marketing tool as it will drive far more traffic directly to your merchants' sites in a short space of time (ie immediately) than your own website may ever do.
   
   In fact, with your own site, it could take ages to get any semblance of traffic and then no guarantees that your visitors will click through to your affiliate sites
   
   Therefore your best strategy would be to short cut the process and learn how to profit with Google Adwords campaigns...it's an affiliate marketers dream!  
    

3. Establishing a Web Presence

   To market your products online you would probably need to design and host your own website.
   
   You should register a domain name as soon as possible. It's not a big outlay and you can register as many low cost domain names as you like with Netfirms
   
   For webhosting it is imperative that you choose a reputable and reliable hosting company like Hostgator which is not only a reliable webhost but they offer a package whereby you can host unlimited sites for less than $6.95 a month.
   
   

4. The Power of E-mail Marketing
    
   Every successful affiliate will tell you that the money is in the list. It is therefore imperative to build a list by harnessing your site visitors' email details so that you can mail them newsletters, special offers and so on.
    
   Furthermore, you can bet that the affiliates making the most money are those with the biggest lists but to achieve this you need software that will automate the whole process for you.
    
   This process not only involves the capturing of your clients' details and mailing them a confirmation email but also sending them pre=designed email sales letters or courses that persuade your client to make a purchase.
    
   It is therefore probably the most important investment that you make for your online business and in this regard AWeber is arguably the best email package that has all the features you'll need as well as being the one that most of the top and most successful internet marketers use.

Finally, some affiliates are making huge amounts of money every month but my guess is that, on the whole, affiliates are struggling to make just one sale a month. In fact many give up without ever even having made a sale at all.

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