5. You do not have any ‘time lag’. With most businesses it takes a certain amount of time in ‘start up’ phase. With affiliate programs there is no such thing. Once you join you can start selling.

6. You do not have to worry about sales administration and technical support. The product owner takes care of sales process and all after sales service. All you have to worry about is receiving your affiliate check!

7. You do not have to worry about direct contact with customer. In an affiliate program you are a re-seller so if customer has a complaint they contact product owner, not you.

Affiliate programs are simple to join, easy to start promoting and best of all they have no downside. If one affiliate program does not work out, you can leave and join a different one.

You could select top 10 in Business to Business / Education or top 10 in Health and Fitness / Diet and join each of those 10 affiliate programs.

Here is a little tip: each product is ranked by how many sales are made so you can be sure that top 10 in each category are best sellers. It is better to become an affiliate of best sellers.

By joining 10 affiliate programs in one category you are still selling 10 different products as an affiliate but you will be far more focussed than 90% of all other affiliates. That is because you will be selling similar items.

This makes your marketing job just that bit easier. All products will be suitable to same market so you can sell each item to your email list over a period of time. This means you can sell up to 10 times to same list. This is much better than trying to sell golf clubs to fishermen!

Focus is one of true keys to success with affiliate programs. One way to focus is by selecting a particular category.

Selling 10 of a similar item to same audience is about 95% easier than selling 10 different things when it comes to affiliate programs.