Okay so you’ve read (fill in blank with internet guru’s name here)’s book and decided that affiliate marketing is way for you to earn some extra money online. I mean after all, all you have to do is plug in your name and run their ads and collect your commission check and ride off into sunset, right? Not quite. With so many people promoting exact same program as you, in exact same ezines or on exact same websites, you need some ways to distinguish yourself from rest of pack of affiliate marketers. Here are seven ways for you to do this.

1. Host Your Own Website.

I know I sound like a broken record, but it is absolutely essential for you to have your own website. For starters you can have a domain name that is easy to remember. I mean can you remember http://www.areallylongaffiliatemarketersurl.com/?pid=123/r=4(My apologies if that url actually belongs to someone, I just made it up on spot for an illustration)? I didn’t think so.

So if you can’t remember it and it’s your url, what makes you think your potential customer is going to remember it. Do you know what they are going to do? They are going to just chop off stuff at end and type in main domain name and purchase product from main site. However if you have your own url, you could have a url like http://www.yourdomain.com which is much easier to remember and you can just point your visitors to your affiliate page in your website.

2. Write Your Own Ads

If you need a straight, no minced words, free article for content, regarding why & what it takes to be successful in an Affiliate program, along with a "Scam Advertisers Blacklistem Forum", feel free to use this article by Mac, titled: Stop Being An Ignorant & Broke Affiliate, Learn How To Be A Rich One!

You have permission to reprint on your web site or in your e-zine. Please insure following: a) The article is printed in its full form with no changes. b) You include byline at end of article so all affiliates can benefit from article and "Blacklist All Crooked Affiliate Programs" discussion & message board.

By MacD Nov.20/2004 http://www.moneyhonesty.com Home of Trustworthy Money Making Opportunities.

Affiliate Programs: As you read on you'll see why a 2 tier system gives everyone involved same Honest opportunity, and WHY everyone involved makes MONEY. And sweet thing about it.. Every individual Affiliate starts building their OWN Independent, Profitable, Private Little Empire...IMMEDIATELY!

This is ACCOMPLISHED by Affiliates sticking together. Did you know Affiliates are Largest Group of workers on Internet? Let's put that to work for us.

Don't be saying - To heck with him, why should he make any Money? That means you don't get it yet. (working together) . If you don't want or think, Affiliate who introduced you to a great Affiliate program you signed up with (their actually your partner) deserves to make any money on your sales, and you figure you can make same or more without him. "You better think again". If every Affiliate thought like that, it wouldn't be possible for ANY Affiliate in this whole World to make much money. And surprisingly, that's one of reasons majority of Affiliates don't make any money. That, along with dishonest schemes just around every corner. ( More info. on schemes, a list of scam advertisers and a scam forum & message board at http://www.moneyhonesty.com/disc2_welc.htm )

Your forgetting that it takes a whole team. Everyone relying on each other to pull their weight. "Team play is EXTREMELY CRITICAL" (It's ONLY way you can assure success in an online Affiliate program)

If you truly want to make as much money as you possibly can from your Internet marketing, you *MUST* work together with other Internet marketers (Affiliates). PERIOD. No matter what you are trying to "do" with your life, you will excel at a much faster pace by surrounding yourself and learning from others that are also trying to do same thing.

You are reading this because you are trying to make money from home as an Internet marketer. You are trying to build wealth by making money from your efforts on Internet. You can certainly "go it alone" but if you take advantage of how EASY it is to make friends with other Internet marketers, and then to share in their results and experiences, you will make FIFTY TIMES amount of money than if you only rely on yourself to build wealth with Internet.

It's tough for a beginner to "pick and choose" an honest program, tougher yet trying to work with a loosing situation constantly in their face. A good Affiliate program will take care of "pick and choose", then all you have to do is work together. It's quite simple to be doing well as long as your all on same page. Smart Affiliates actually work WITH & FOR each other, and are achieving their goals. I long for day when all Affiliates realize that fact.

REMEMBER Your Business will grow by everyone being reliable and working together. So, if you still don't get it.....read on.