It is an often quoted statistic that about 90% of affiliates make no money from affiliate programs.

The top 10% of affiliates make all money. Some of these are super affiliates who make very large sums of money indeed.

What is reason for big difference between those who succeed and those who fail?

The following rules should be followed when choosing affilite programs:

1) Only promote products/sevices in a niche that is in demand and profitable.

2) Join programs where you earn at least 20% commissions on sales.

3) Only promote products that tie in with theme of your web site. Unrelated products make a site look bad and sell poorly.

4) Concentrate on promoting programs that pay recurring or lifetime commissions. In other words, make a sale once and get paid indefinitely for any repeat sales to same customer.

There are tons of guru's floating around and even more eBooks and articles claiming to know latest and greatest trick to make tons of money with no effort at all (oh and of course, unless you use their method then you will never, ever get anywhere in your online business and stay broke rest of your life). We've all seen these before.

Let's get real for a moment. If you don't put any effort into your marketing and don't spread word of whatever you are marketing, then you will get exactly that much out of your effort. Zero effort = Zero results!

I hope that's plain enough and now let's have a look at sensible way to market your affiliate programs, so you can actually earn some of that Internet-Money-Pie (and it's yummy too).

There are two types of affiliate programs generally. Those that pay you (1-tier) and those that pay you, plus they pay you a bonus for actions taken by visitors sent by other webmasters you have referred (2-tier).

Let's think about that for a moment. What's easier way to make money? You sell a bunch of products and get paid on that alone, or if you sell product and also introduce affiliate program to a bunch of webmasters who in turn also sell and they earn a nice commission and you get a bonus every single time they sell something, just for having referred them to affiliate program?

Ok, I know you probably just smacked your forhead and said 'Duh' quite loudly and think I am stating plain and obvious.

If you can get others to do same thing you are doing, by keeping in touch with them and helping them and duplicating your efforts, then of course it stands to reason that bonus you receive for referring webmasters will generate potentially a large team of people making you money.

So, your first task is to find good, well-paying 2-tier affiliate programs. You can always use single tier programs as a back end sale or on other projects, don't get me wrong, they will still make you money, but right now, we want to get you started off on right foot to your own internet income.

So, you've gone out and found a well-paying affiliate program, and you are ready to rumble and make money... Not So Fast!!!

How are you going to promote it? What is your plan of attack? That's another problem many marketers run into, they just run off and don't think before they act and that again results in a lot less return for all of your efforts.

Here's what I have done in past and always do each time. Feel free to try this out and see results for yourself.

After finding affiliate program I want to promote, I check resource material provided by program. Sometimes, depending on how new program is, I use their material to get things rolling but almost every time, I start to write some ads of my own, perhaps an article or even an ebook that I can use to promote product and affiliate program with. Some of those resources are available to readers of eBusinessCornerNews newsletter if you are interested.