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

For each sale that one of your sub-affiliates make, you earn a percentage of your sub-affiliates sale above and beyond high commission that they're earning! (Your % from your sub-affiliates sales come straight from owners profit, not from your sub-affiliates earnings.) And this translates into extremely easy residual income straight into your pockets....

There's nothing like working from home... More and more people are dropping out of 9 to 5 rat race to offer services /products from home. They start part-time and grow their business until they can finally quite daily grind that pays them scarcely enough to make ends meet. And more times than not, it's not enough...

Like I mentioned above, Affiliate programs are filled with "get rich quick" schemes. You must consider each opportunity carefully. Anything that offers big money for no work is a scam. Think about it - they wouldn't even need you if that was case. Now good news... If you put effort into building your business, Affiliate programs can make working at home a very effective, justifiable and exceptionally profitable choice. A Comprehensive Plan Having a comprehensive plan in place from get-go will help ensure that your affiliate business is built on a solid foundation of loyal customers. With right approach, you can use a good solid Affiliate program to build lasting relationships with those customers -- AND help them grow their own businesses!

The Internet is still young... we have not yet scratched its surface. Start now though, while opportunities are still great. If you don't take initiative now, and get started towards lifestyle you want for yourself / your family... To cut a long story short - If you do NOTHING, wherever your at now, is where you'll always be. I can't predict where your headed, or not headed. But I can say this, DON'T JUST BE A READER - BE A DOER!

If you keep repeating actions which fail, you'll continue failing. If what you're doing isn't working well, it's time to change it, to move out of your comfort zone and try something new.

However, whatever you do, if you want to start an internet business you have to take action.

Remember The Unwritten Affiliate Rule: Successful Affiliates Work With Each Other, Not Against Each Other. We are all working towards same end.

Most Guru's Were Once An Affiliate, Keep That In Mind. Have You Noticed That Group Of Guru's At The Top Today. They STILL Work Together, Everything From J V's To Brainstorming New Product "TOGETHER". They Knew How To Do It Back Then, And Still Do It. We Can Do It Too! If We All Work Together, We Can Be The Next Group Of Guru's At The Top.

Please keep this intact, so all Affiliates can learn from above article, and also take advantage of "Scam Advertisers Blacklistem Forum & Message Board" to put a stop to working relentlessly and then getting beat out of their "HARD EARNED MONEY"

MacD, Author & Webmaster of http://www.moneyhonesty.com Home of Trustworthy Money Making Opportunities.

*** Be very careful about your promotion program, there are many schemes out there where program is legit, makes huge money, makes fantastic promises to Affiliate, But you will never, ever get paid. Their mindset - Get free advertising for your Product, compliments of your friendly Affiliate.

I'm an older Affiliate and I'm fed up with it. And I'm doing something about it to help other Affiliates stay clear of these scumbags. Check out Blacklistem Forum at http://www.moneyhonesty.com/disc2_welc.htm

Copyright MacD, www.moneyhonesty.com Nov.20/2004

MacD...Author & Webmaster of http://www.moneyhonesty.com and http://www.blacklistem.com He has brought together both websites to form the 'CONNECTION'. designed to teach Affiliates the advantage of working together and to help expose "Scam Affiliate Programs" on the internet to prevent future scams on Affiliates.