by Wayne Rasku

Many experts believe that one of the easiest and fastest way to make money online is through affiliate marketing. This is a bit ironic, but you don't even need to know how to sell to start your new career in affiliate marketing. Set aside a little of your valuable time, pair that with a desire and a small bit of creativity and you have the formula for success in the affiliate marketing field.

It really is not difficult to do affiliate marketing. How much time does it take to become an affiliate marketer? Not as much as it takes to watch a rerun of "House" or an episode of American Idol. Just find a product you wish to promote as an affiliate. You can do that by signing up at any one of the free affiliate sites and choosing a product. There are no limitations as to the number of products you can promote as an affiliate. Feel free to snatch as many as you want.

You will need to set up a campaign in order to sell you prodcuts. Basically, a campaign is an action plan for all that you will do to push your affiliate product.

Many affiliate marketers use a type of program callled pay-per-click, which is a paid advertising campaign. You, the promoter, bid for a spot on a site and you pay each time your ad is clicked.

Even though pay-per-click can be very lucrative, beginners should be hesitant about getting into that market without some quality training because an ad campaign can be quite expensive to maintain.

Those new to affiliate marketing will benefit more from the free methods of increasing traffic to a site. Blogging is quite popular among affiliate marketing folks, and it can be done without cost to the promoter. If you don't have a blog yet then you should know that it is very easy to start one making use of services similar to Blogger or Wordpress. Prior to signing up for the blog service, make sure you have selected the product you will be promoting from one of the affilaite marketing sites. Next you would start bloggin about concepts and ideas related to the product or service you have chosen. Then get started blogging by adding a post every day or so that has good information for the readers about your chosen subject. Also write articles about your subject that you will submit to free article directories, making sure you include a link in your articles to your blog.

Even though this description may seem basic and simple, it is an reliable technique to get started with. If you are truly interested and inspired to learn more about affiliate marketing, there is no limit to the knowledge and training available to you. Simple is better as you choose the training resource for your new affiliate marketing career. Many affiliate marketing resources from so-called "gurus" are simply fluff-filled materials that will make you more confused about affiliate marketing.

The best affiliate marketing resources around are the ones that supply real, down-to-earth information about how to make money online.

by Gabriel Johnson


If you have done online marketing for any amount of time then you already know that becoming an affilliate marketer does not happen overnight. I have read reports that only 2% of the people that try to earn online actually succeed. I myself kept searching the internet and trying all kinds of different programs including the use of this blog.

I also found that the world wide web can be an information overload if one is not careful. I guess I was not careful and the next thing I knew I was involved with way to many opportunities and programs and could not promote them all. It is always best to start small and focus on one thing at a time when first becoming an affiliate with any company.

Becoming an Affiliate takes dedication! I truly believe that most people get frustrated and confused which causes them to quit. I have been at this for some time and it was very hard to control all the data I recieved daily. By setting goals I was able to have a direction becoming an affiliate marketer. I learned all this after spending loads of money on hosting and advertising with no results. I was getting more and more frustrated and was about to give up when I came across Free Site Signup.

From this moment on Becoming an Affiliate was becoming more of a good idea than I had originally thought.

This site was offering me a way to learn affiliate marketing with no budget at all. They gave me the direction I needed and not a moment to soon! Needless to say I was simply amazed to see a company offering to help me accomplish my dreams of working for myself.

Becoming an Affiliate is alot easier with the right info! Freesitesignup.com gave me the opportunity i had been searching for and needless to say I was all over it when I realized they were providing training , and I would get 35 money pulling websites and also show me techniques to get free traffic to my pages. No matter what niche you are in they can get you going in the right direction. You get a checklist that you check off as you go so if you lose your place(like I do) you can go back and pick up where you left off.

Becoming an Affiliate requires Organization

I have never been a very organized person and online marketing is no different. I soon ended up forgetting programs and links to some of my affiliate pages. I could use having a 2nd job as an excuse but that would not be entirely true. My impatience, and need to create more income was overwhelming and I dove straight in not knowing what I was doing.