The solution? Take what you know, what you love, and turn it into a Theme-Based Content Site. Attract highly targeted, interested customers, provide solid value through content, then refer them to your affiliated merchants.

DRIVING TRAFFIC

Having lot's of traffic to your website is a big challenge. But it is essential to be successful. Or at least to make a reasonable amount of money.

You have to make your site "search engine friendly". You need content for search engine to spider your website.

You need to know how your webpage is index and how well it is ranked on SE to better perform.

Use every marketing method to drive traffic.

PPC Campaign Linking Strategy Writing Articles Ezine Publishing Newsletter Banner Advertising Viral Marketing (EBooks, Freeware etc.) Offline as well. (Business Cards, Flyers, Radio Spots etc.)

CONCLUSION

Affiliate Program are great. You can really make a substantial income at almost no cost. This is simplest way to start a business. You can really succeed if you keep learning and experimenting.

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*reasonable income expectations touted by top management of company offering opportunity.

*support systems and training resources available to help participants succeed.

One thing that really struck home with me was a statement made by founder of company that I eventually selected for my home based business. It went something like following:

"Hardly a day goes by that I don’t hear from an affiliate questioning why he or she is not seeing a big check yet. More times than not, person asking hasn’t even been involved for more than 90 days and is only barely beginning to even understand how whole system works. And frankly, even if number was six months, it’s still much too early to be expecting a significant income stream to have developed.

I always say that if you’re not willing to give a business at least a year, don’t even bother getting involved. You need to understand that it takes time to get to know all nuances of compensation plan. It takes time to determine which products you want to lead with. It takes time to develop a game plan. It takes time to figure out what marketing activities deliver biggest bang for buck. Anything worthwhile takes sustained effort. If you’re not thinking long term, you’ve set yourself up for failure."

To sum it up, selection process should focus on reality (there is no "magic" in home based businesses) and reject any so-called home business"opportunities" that seem too good to be true.