At the end of the day, there are only 3 ways you can make money online: Sell your own product or service that you've developed, or products, and or services, you've bought the rights to. Sell another company's products/services for a commission. Sell traffic.

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Each option has its unique advantages.

But the fastest way for you to start making money online, is to sell another company's products and services, or affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a powerful business model. Plus, an Internet affiliate marketing business can be started with little overhead and with minimum technical skills.

Other advantages of selling affiliate products or services:

• Usually there's no fee for you to start selling a company's affiliate products and services.

• When you're an inexperienced novice, you can use the affiliate owner's ready-made and already proven web sites and sales copy.

• Because you get to use your affiliate owner's web sites and sales copy, you have fairly low start-up costs for your online business.

• Your job as an affiliate is to send interested visitors to your affiliate company's web site or get people to sign up for a series of pre-written email/autoresponder messages.

• The affiliate companies have tracking software installed, so the sales made from the visitors you send, will be credited to you...So you get paid.

• You can get free training because most affiliate opportunities come with some online marketing & sales training and help.

• Once you've learned how to sell one affiliate product or service, with some testing, tracking and adjustments, you can use the same proven marketing plan you've developed to sell other online products/services:

. . . Even your own!

Sounds great so far, huh?

I sincerely hope you realize there's more to it than meets the eye at first glance...

For example:

1. Even though you're marketing affiliate products, you still need to know how to match affiliate products to a target market with money to buy.

2. You must learn how to study your prospective competition already selling to your target market and determine if and how you can own a piece of the market.

3. You need to know how to analyze and choose affiliate programs that will sell and know how to determine if the affiliate owners will pay you once you've made the sale.

4. You need to know how to set up methods for capturing names/email addresses of prospects before you send them to affiliate programs...so you can personally contact them for follow-up sales.

5. You need to know the art of getting traffic and traffic conversion.

6. Etc, etc...

In other words, like doing everything else under the sun, you'll be more successful if you take the time to learn, test and use that activity's peculiar rules wisely.

We couldn't possibility examine the many facets of online affiliate marketing in one simple discussion. Although you can't learn everything you need to know from one source, the resources at the following links will get you off to an excellent start:

Affiliate Marketing Training:

1. Free Report gives you a simple strategy for selling via viral marketing: Viral Marketing Strategy 

2. Charlie Page's "10 Simple Steps To Succeed As An Affiliate For Under $100" Program: Affiliate Marketing

3. Rick Braddy's "Affiliate ATM": www.AffiliateATM.Com

4. Dr. Andrew William's "SEO Site Builder": http://www.SEOSiteBuilder.Com 

5. To see what your first business decision should be, go to: http://www.LazyDudePublishing.com/1.htm