3.Wait for cash to roll in: You have got a good product, your own website, and have research and coded you website to include important keywords and key phrases. Time to wait for cash to roll in. WRONG! If possible keep an eye on traffic to your site. Getting a god host to begin with usually means you have a way to analysis traffic to your site, where they come from, what they searched for, etc. WATCH traffic and see what it is doing. MEANWHILE start your next project. Your new site may rank very well for anything up to a month, maybe two, but it WILL fall in traffic levels. When this happens you need a new site to take over. Have it built and start getting traffic to it as soon as possible. For real search engine savey lean how to link two together properly to get even more traffic between your sites.

To see how I operate my own affiliate schemes see: NetNeo.co.uk and an example of how to promote more than one similar program see: http://ukloans.netneo.co.uk (Idealy this should be on its own domain, but this is for example purposes)

The above can be used as long as it is not changed and you link to http://www.netneo.co.uk.

3. Have some products of your own that are only available through your website.

Once you have your website going, it is important to have some products or services that your customers can’t find at your affiliate site. You want your customers to keep coming to your site and best way to do that is to have something on your site that they can’t find on affiliate site.

4. Cultivate your own list.

It’s much easier to sell to people that you have already built a relationship with. That’s one reason why it is important to build your own list. You may also be able to earn some money from your list in form of advertising.

5. Buy product you are marketing.

When you buy product you are marketing, you can sell it better. You can tell potential customer what a great experience you had with product. This will make them interested enough to buy product. You will also be able to provide support if necessary or write a tutorial on how to use product that you are marketing.

6. Be totally honest

If you find out that program you were promoting is a scam, stop promoting it and inform your readers about it. This will help you build credibility with your lists. We all make mistakes and admitting your mistake will boost your readers confidence in you.

7. Don’t try to market everything you see.

With services such as clickbank, it is easy to become overwhelmed and try to market everything in clickbank marketplace. That is not a good idea. It’s better to focus on one market and market products that they would want. This is called niche marketing. The last thing you want to do is to bombard your subscribers with pitches for products. That is one surefire way to lose subscribers.

Affiliate marketing is definitely here to stay and it can become a great way to earn extra or even part time income. However, it won’t happen overnight. Like everything else in life, you’re going to have to put a lot of hard work into it. Good luck to you in your new venture.

DeAnna Spencer is webmaster for Learn Small Business, a site that teaches how to run a small business for free. Visit today at http://www.learnsmallbusiness.com