Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

Ok, now lets break it down. You are basically promoting products and services for another company and getting paid for each sale you send to the company.

There is no inventory involved.

You don't have to talk to anyone directly

If one idea don't work, try something new.

Finding a company to promote for is very simple. Most online businesses have an option at the bottom of their website that will say something pertaining to Affiliate Marketing. You can apply for companies one by one, but that would take up time. The easiest way to do this would be to apply for Companies that specialize in Affiliate marketing.

Example: You might want to be an Affiliate Marketer for Walmart, Cupshe, Bestbuy and a few more. You could go to each website apply or you could sign up for the Affiliate Marketing company Linkshare and apply for all of them at one time. If you sign up for them one at a time your payments can be very confusing. If you go through an Affiliate Marketing company you will only have one payment from all the combined companies.

There are a lot of Affiliate Marketing companies but I listed the few that I have personally tried.

The easiest way to find products to promote would be to sign up for Affiliate Marketing companies.

Linkshare

Commission Junction

Share a Sale

Max bounty

Clickbank

Use “your ideas” to create a business- You can’t honestly make money promoting something you don’t understand. I wouldn’t advise anyone to try to sell something that they have not tried out nor can answer questions about. Affiliate Marketing don’t require you to do a lot of talking to people, but if someone ask you a question its best that you can answer the question or you will lose that sell.

Everyone have stuff that interest them the most, but it is hard to narrow your interest down to one or two things that interest you the most. Here is a list of categories that you can make money from. There is more but this is just a general idea of how many ways you can make money with affiliate marketing

Auto - Accessories, Cars, Rentals

Business & Career - B-to-B, Employment, Real Estate

Clothing & Accessories - Accessories, Children, Jewelry, Men, Women

Computer & Electronics - Consumer, Hardware, Software

Department Store - Clothing, Gifts, Home, Jewelry

Entertainment - Books/Magazines, Music, Videos

Family- Baby, Education, Entertainment, Pets

Financial Services - Banking/Trading, Credit Cards, Loans

Food & Drink - Candy, Cigars, Gourmet, Wine

Games & Toys - Children, Educational, Electronic

Gift & Flowers - Flowers, Gifts, Greeting Cards

Health & Beauty - Bath/Body, Cosmetics, Medical Supplies & Services, Prescription, Vitamins

Hobbies & Collectibles - Art, Auctions, Collectibles, Bed/Bath

Home & Living - Bed/Bath, Garden, Improvement, Kitchen

Internet & Online - Development, Hosting, Online Dating, Programs, Services

Mature/Adult - Apparel, Books, Entertainment

Miscellaneous - Other, Other Products/Services

Office - Equipment, Home Office, Supplies

Sports & Fitness - Clothing, Collectibles, Equipment, Bed/Bath

Telecommunications - Equipment, Long Distance, Wireless

Travel - Airline, Car, Hotel, Vacations

Once you have an idea of what you want to promote, use your idea and create a domain for your new website – You can do this at a very low start-up cost. There are a lot of webhosting services. I have tried several webhosting companies and I will give some of the other ones that I have not tried also. When looking for a webhost the average person will chose one that is low cost, have low monthly fees, cheap domains, unlimited webspace and things like that.

1&1 Web-Hosting - I paid less than $15 for the entire year. One domain was included in this price, and 100 subdomains included. I don’t have any monthly fees because I paid for the one year of service. It also come with unlimited web space. They also offer an online store that they will set up for you. I can say a lot of nice things about this company. No problems so far. After my first year I will have to pay a lost cost of $7.99 per month

Intersever- This was the second company I tried when I was looking for a webhost. They have low monthly fees also. When I tried them they had a 1 week trial period. Doing that week I realized they was a little too advanced for what I was looking for. They offered services I had never heard of and I didn't understand it. I already knew the basics of running a home-based business. I didn't have enough time (doing the 7 day trial) to learn something new. I did't want to spend money on something I didn't understand!!!

Godaddy- I have never tried them but I have heard some good things about this webhosting company. If I ever need to find a new host, they would be my next choice. In the future I plan on trying out this company just to see how it work.

eHost - This was the first webhosting company I used. Everything was quick and easy to set up just like the webhost company I’m now using. I only ran into one issue with this company which was they stop accepting my credit card that I was paying with. They also offer low cost monthly fees. I have no other issues with this company.