Affiliate Program have exploded on internet. Thousand of people join them every day. Amazon.com is probably best example of such phenomenal success.

If affiliate program is so popular and so widely available and booming like mushroom...Why do most affiliate have a hard time making $100 per month ?

And some have never receive a check ? It's probably because they are not effective in their marketing campaign or doing noting at all.

But some affiliates are making big bucks. They are one with an income of ($100,000 and over per year). There is also a big majority who still make a good income (around $10 000 to $75 000 a year).

Of course vast majority of affiliate will never make that much money. They fail miserably.

So what is wrong with them ?

THEY DON'T SET GOALS

Most people fail at anything because most people don't have a clear vision of where they are heading. They don't take time to learn and experiment. They give up too easily.

Yes, it feels "unproductive" to prepare and set up a system... But it's how successful succeed.

The solution? Planning and learning.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT AFFILIATE PROGRAM

Choosing best companies is an art in itself. Choose affiliate program that are already successful and well established like SFI. Choose one that offer good training and good marketing aids.

Successful affiliates select best companies. They use new ideas and creativity to attract customers. They never give up.

DEVELOP A GOOD WEBSITE

For newbie, danger in joining lots of affiliate programs is multi-faceted. Joining affiliate programs takes time, time newbie could be using defining their USP, learning about getting targeted traffic, or learning other Internet marketing skills that will actually generate revenue for them. In addition, newbie who joins lots of affiliate programs in hopes of making instant profits, is at risk of being disappointed when they don't make money by joining latest affiliate program and that leads to yet further "unproductivity" and poor use of time.

So, what steps do newbies take to identify best affiliate program(s) that matches their USP?

It will differ based on goal of each newbie Internet marketer, but here's a small set of steps that are useful to start with:

*Define how affiliate program's offering complements your USP. You should be able to clearly map out what affiliate program's offering (product or service) will be useful to patrons or visitors of your web site, list or customer base. If product that you will be promoting is something that will be useful to you and people you sell or try to sell to, it may be a useful affiliate program to join.

*Make sure that you fully review product offered by affiliate program, use it, and make your own assessment of it. Don't promote a product from any affiliate program unless you own product yourself and love it. If you own and love product that you are promoting, you will be able to sell it more effectively because your energy and excitement level will show through in deliver of your message to would be customer. In addition, you will be able to list and explain in detail features of product or service that affiliate program is offering.

*Make certain that web site that sells affiliate program is set up correctly to sell product, and sell it well. The web site that sells product of affiliate program should be professional in its layout, design, sales copy, and delivery of product itself. The web site should have a mechanism to capture names and emails of visitors. The web site should also have a strong auto responder series in place to follow up with and sell visitors of that site on product.