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Affiliate marketing is easy, isn’t it? After all, there are millions of products you can sell, and hundreds of thousands of people make an income online selling them. Unfortunately, many more people start this endeavor than succeed.

Of course you can beat the odds. All it takes is enthusiasm, and — yes, hard work. Just as Rome wasn’t build in a day, so your home business won’t be built in a day either.

Let’s look at five easy tips which will help you to get started today.

1. Get Your Own Website, With Your Own Domain Name

If you’re serious about affiliate marketing, you need your own website, which you control. If you depend on a “free” site, it may or may not be online tomorrow, depending on whether or not the company stays in business, and whether or not the company stays friendly to affiliate marketers.

2. Choose One Product You Use, and Can Promote With Confidence

Only you are you, and only you have your opinions. Become an affiliate for a product you use. Then write a review of it, and explain its good and bad points. Your review doesn’t have to be 100 per cent positive: include what you don’t like.

3. Add Relevant Content to Your Site

Your site needs to be about something. Choose a topic related to the kinds of products you’ll be promoting.

The days of one-product review sites are over. These days, to get traffic, you site needs original content, and lots of it.

4. Add More Content, and More Affiliate Products

As you add more content, write about and review additional products. The topic of your site has an audience, and that audience has many needs and interests. This means that you can extend the scope of your marketing to promote new products.

For example, if your site’s topic is dog training, you don’t need to confine yourself to promoting product for dogs. Yes, dog products will be your main focus, but you could also promote travel options, because dog owners go on vacation too.

5. Keep Going: Persistence Wins

Here’s the most important tip: keep working on your site, and adding content and products. If you do, you can’t fail.

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Over the past week I’ve had several questions about how to get started with affiliate marketing.

Here’s the simplest way. The only thing you need is a website, and you can get that in two minutes by using Blogger.

Here’s how to start promoting products as an affiliate:

1. Go to Amazon.com, and join their affiliate program. Amazon sells products in almost any category you can imagine. Whatever the topic of your site, you’ll find products there you can sell with a few clicks.

You’ll find the link to join Amazon Associates (that’s their affiliate program) on the home page; scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you’ll see the link, as in the image above. Just follow the instructions to join.

2. All done? Great. Now search for something on Amazon.com that’s related to the topic of your blog.

For example, let’s say that you’re blogging about weight loss.

Just enter “weight loss” into the search field on the home page of Amazon.com.

I just did that, and I got the results you can see in the image above.

Click on a product you want to promote.

I clicked on the alli product.

Now look at the top of the product page, above the Amazon logo. You’ll see a grey link bar, as in the image below.

Click the link which says: “Link to this page”.

A box similar to the one in the image below will open.

Click the Highlight HTML button, and copy the code.

Now all you need to do is paste the code into your webpage, or blog post — the code already contains your affiliate information. Whenever someone buys using your link, you get credit for the sale, and once your affiliate sales mount up, you’ll get paid.

Simple, right? That’s all there is to getting started with affiliate marketing. Now go and sell some products.

Affiliate marketing is essentially free. You join an affiliate program and make money. Promote a product which sells for $500 and you could make $50 per sale. A way to coin money, right?

Yes and no.

While affiliate marketing is “free”, there is expense, both in time and in money. There’s no free lunch.

Merchants create affiliate programs so that others will help them to promote their products — they’ll act as salespeople for them.

When you join an affiliate program, you need to work out how you’ll promote that particular product. The more time, energy and (yes) money you devote to this, the more you will sell.

Most new-comers fail at affiliate marketing because they don’t understand that the more they put in, the more they get. If you just paste banners all over your website, unless you’re amazingly lucky, you won’t make a cent from affiliate marketing.

It’s a business in which there are many ways to fail.

However, you can achieve success, when you approach your affiliate sales as a campaign. The best affiliate marketers spend a lot of time and money promoting products. They research their market, and their products. As much as possible, they make sure that a product they’re considering actually sells, because many products, for any number of reasons, don’t.

If you’re looking for a free way to make money online, affiliate marketing can work for you, as long as you understand that the first dollars you make need to be invested in your business over and over again, and that making money will take time.

If you understand this, affiliate marketing can not only work for you, it can also be your “free” road to riches.