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Creating an affiliate marketing business means partnering with an online merchant by promoting their goods or services.  If you make a sale -- you receive a commission.

Is affiliate marketing a real "honest to goodness business" that you can actually make money at?

ABSOLUTELY, I do it every day!

The best part about affiliate marketing is that it costs very little to get started.  If you have a computer and access to the internet you can learn affiliate marketing and begin making money within a few weeks.

Signing up as an affiliate marketer with affiliate merchants is easy and it's free.  Once signed up, the affiliate merchant will assign you an affiliate link for you to promote.  How you promote that link is up to you, however I strongly suggest that you create a web site for promoting your affiliate product(s).  There will be some costs to creating and hosting a website and the purchase of a domain name, but the costs are a drop in the bucket compared to other business start-ups. 

Why Affiliate Marketing?

When starting up a business there's a lot of time, work and risk involved.  Developing a product requires research,  marketing materials, getting established, branding and the list goes on. 

With affiliate marketing the risk to you as an affiliate marketer is minimal.  That's because all the business building work has already been done.  All you need to do is find reputable, quality products to promote.

What's more, a good affiliate program will provide you with all the marketing tools and materials you need to promote it, things like banners, ads, email salescopy, branded materials, ecourses and many others, making your job that much easier.

But what makes affiliate marketing one of the best online businesses to start? 

• No Production costs -  No costs to make or purchase products.
• No product inventory - There's no inventory to stock or maintain. 
• No merchant accounts to set up - No payment processing. 
• No order processing or shipping - Your merchant takes the orders and processes them. 

...and what's best of all,  you can do it WITHOUT...

• any programming or website design knowledge or experience
• being a Search Engine "guru"
• having a single product of your own. 

The products you can promote as an affiliate are endless. But don't make the mistake of trying to promote everything to everyone. Find a profitable niche which means finding a topic or theme that is tightly focused.  For example, instead of developing a business around exercise equipment, focus on a more narrowed topic such as body building or perhaps running. Once you find a focused topic then you can build a niche site around that theme or product, know and understand who your audience will be and market only to them. 

Once you build a complete and comprehensive site, you can begin promoting products that complement your site's topic. 

As your site begins to making money, you can duplicate that system over and over again and your income will increase each time.  

Affiliate Marketing Resources

Highly Recommended! Super affiliate handbook - This is a MUST for every affiliate marketer.

Best affiliate progams - Affiliate programs that consistently earn affiliates the most money.  Based on quality products, commissions and quality promotional tools.

Learn affiliate marketing - Free affiliate marketing tutorial. Learn the basics, personal tips and marketing strategies that I use every day.

Affiliate Masters Course - A FREE powerful affiliate marketing guide by Dr. Ken Envoy that prepares you for success in affiliate marketing on the internet

Find affiliate products through online affiliate networks 

Revenue Today - Magazine dedicated to affiliate marketing – Subscription Details

Pay Per click advertising Tools for Affiliate Marketers

Beating Adwords - Powerful Google Adwords Strategies and Techniques for affiliate marketers on beating the Adwords competition.

Google Cash - Already in its 3rd edition, Chris Carpenter has put together a comprehensive training package that reveals how to use Google, the most powerful search engine to date, to generate large sums of cash by promoting affiliate programs.