Make Money Affiliate Marketing

After a couple of months of reading every thing I could find about making a living from the internet, I read about a business model I hadn't heard of...affiliate marketing. Questioning a friend of mine I was told, Yeah, You can make money affiliate marketing. It's one of the best ways to make money, earn money from the internet. Thousands of websites making money use this business model as their primary means of making a living online.

I started researching affiliate marketing as a means to making a living online.

Basically, to make money affiliate marketing, you install a link on your website or blog directing your visitors to another site with a product or products to sell. If your visitor makes a purchase after being directed there from your site, you make a commission. Simple enough, right?... Wrong!

First you have to find companies and websites with an affiliate program. Preferrably selling something with which you at least have a little knowledge. Most of us have hobbies, interests, job knowledge, etc. that will serve this purpose. Now all we need is a blog or a website set up to sell this product or products. You do know how to create a blog or a website don't you? Well, I sure as hell didn't. I was literally and figuratively putting the (shopping)cart before the horse.

I learned all that stuff from a "beginners" guide to affiliate marketing. Biting the bullet, I purchased a highly recommended guide to affiliate marketing for the beginner. Only cost $27. Near as I could tell the ebook was very well written and researched. Lots of references to sites where one could make a living online. And how to get started. Almost. The ebook made the same assumption common to all of these ebooks to make money affiliate marketing. It assumed I knew how to create blogs or websites making money. Nowhere in the ebook did it explain how to create said blogs or websites.

This business where I could make money affiliate marketing interested me greatly. But, before that was possible I was gonna have to learn how to create blogs or websites making money or both. Until I could find a site offering instructions on how to do that, I read everything I could find that would teach me to make money affilliate marketing.