Affiliate marketing 101

Become an affiliate

Affiliate businesses are probably the easiest to start, but also can be the hardest to make profitable. Simply because when you are an affiliate, you are promoting someone else products.

So what are affiliate programs and how can you earn a constant monthly income with them?

Affiliate programs are a great way to get started marketing online. In essence affiliate programs or associate programs are revenue sharing arrangements where companies (merchants) pay webmasters commission for sending them customers.

In other words:

You refer people to different websites that sell products. And if the people you refer buy, you get a commission.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of becoming an affiliate is that you do not need your own product! All you need is a way to send traffic to other people's websites and boom, you have started your own business!

Basically affiliate programs are programs that enable you to sell other peoples products for a percentage of the sale. They are also a very hot topic at the moment.

To see a comprehensive list of affiliate programs you can join or visit, see some links I provided below.

You can virtually sell anything online now thanks to affiliate programs. If you want to learn more about starting your own affiliate business, you really need to read the following guides.

http://www.clickbank.com

Start an online e-book store

An online e-book store is basically a website that sells e-books. While a conventional website usually sells only one e-book, an e-book store website sells many.

You can start an online e-book store 3 different ways:

1. Write your own e-books and sell them in your online store website.

Since you will be creating your own products one-by-one, this will take a long time to set up.

2. Buy resell rights to other people¡¦s e-books. This will be a lot faster than creating your own products, because you will be buying already made products.

However, you will need some start up money (probably about $1,000) to get this off the ground.

3. Simply promote other people¡¦s e-books on your website. Basically, become an affiliate of other