This tips intend to help you on your way to become a high-earning affiliate champion, use it as a guideline to your success. Feel free to contact me if you need further information.

1. First thing first: Target your market. If you try to sell everything to everyone, you will sell nothing.

2. Choose right program. Everyday you would find hundreds of new "get-rich-quick" programs on net. Avoid them! Before joining any program, do some research. Trust only programs that have been consistently paying their affiliates

3. Join one program at a time, stick to it. Avoid distractions joining several programs at same time. Stay focused on best program chosen.

4. Promote, promote, promote!. I cant empathize enough. Promotion is lifeblood of your program's success. Focus on marketing and nothing else. One easy way to promote is by joining a traffic exchange program, like traffic swarm.

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Find a niche market that you have some experience or interest in. You will be more motivated to research, create and market a web site and determine optimum promotional strategy if you have a 'passion' for subject.

For instance, say you are a musician or have interest in musical instruments, Next, you need to scope out demand and competition on internet. You can find this out in many ways, one is to go to http//www.altavista.com or http//www.google.com and do a search which will give you number of pages of competition listed. As of this date, 'musical instruments turned up 2,460,000 web sites! But 'used musical instruments' only 848,000.

As far as demand, go to http//www.overture.com and do a search for number of times musical instruments (68,294 searches) or used musical instruments (2,094 searches) was requested. Much more demand for more general term, 'musical instruments than 'used musical instruments' but also much more competition. You might even want to reduce your keyword phrases to more of a 'niche' market, such as Homemade musical instruments or discount musical instrument.

Now that you have decided on product(s) you want to sell online, you need to establish a web site and/or ezine/newsletter. Decide on a domain name. This is a very important task as search engines place some importance on name relating to what sites theme is. You can do a search to determine whether your chosen name is available at most domain name registrar sites. They call it a whois search. You will need a web host, one I recommend is Host4Profit, http//www.roibot.com/w.cgi?R38406_host but there are many web hosts available. Make sure you get features you need such as bandwidth, POP email accounts, autoresponders, and total capacity.