One way around this problem is to pick a theme for your affiliate programs. Your theme could be travel or music. Or your theme could be certain types of information products.

Clickbank – http://www.clickbank.com - is perhaps one of largest groups selling digital information products. There are thousands of web businesses selling all sorts of products with a network of over 100,000 affiliates.

Although they only offer a single tier affiliate program for each product, commissions are usually very high, often 50%.

But why is this so important?

What ClickBank do offer are their digital information products split by category. It allows affiliate to focus. If you go into shopping link from home page you will see a number of categories.

For instance, you could click on category Business to Business and then Education. Or you could click on category Health and Fitness and then Diet.

Business has been a little slow on internet lately as you may have noticed, sales have dropped and people are shopping around more and buying less. I have a web hosting company which until recently was steadily ticking over a regular weekly income which allowed me to work at home and not have to kowtow to some dictatorial boss.

I realize now that I was resting on my laurels, internet is like any other business arena, you can't afford to become complacent and when times are tough you need to diversify or die. I chose to diversify, I would find another income stream to compliment my hosting business. Before wading into often treacherous ocean of internet I set myself some guidelines that must be strictly adhered to in order to make this succeed.

1/ I would spend no more than $100.00 to set business up. 2/ I must be able to earn from it almost immediately. 3/ It must have a proven track record of success. 4/ The time spent on it must have minimum impact on my already busy schedule. A tall order many of you might say, it was but I found it eventually and it pays a tidy sum weekly for small amount of time and money invested.

After sifting through endless GET RICH QUICK scams and coming up empty handed, a fellow webmaster pal suggested I go to Ebay and check out "Businesses For Sale- Websites" section.

He told me he had purchased an affiliate travel website several months before for $180.00 and was now earning several hundred a week from commissions.

Although out of my price range, I was intrigued, what I discovered amazed me. Hundreds of affiliate websites were for sale but only a select few were being heavily bid on.

After some research I noticed some sellers were auctioning half a dozen different turnkey sites at a time and realizing sales of at least $150 each, I quickly realized money was in selling affiliate websites not buying them.

Further detective work lead me to thier little pot of gold. Smallofficecenter.com a unique and very lucrative turnkey business concept that I am sure is going to grow very large on net.

I took tour and signed up later that day, best $99.00 I have ever invested, I made my investment back with $110.00 profit on my first auction.

On average I have five turnkey websites up for auction any given week, I spend a day setting them all up and make at least $500.00 profit. Not bad for a days work and anybody can do it.