Make Money Online - Welcome To Affiliate Marketing

Welcome to the wonderful world of Affiliate Marketing.  With the right information, it is the easiest and quickest way for a retiree or anyone else to make extra money online.
You heard it right, affiliate marketing is the quickest and easiest way to earn a fortune on the internet.  But please bear in mind that quickest doesn't mean overnight and easiest doesn't mean that you don't have to exert any effort.  Rather, affiliate marketing presents a wonderful opportunity that offers the following things:

'¢ Minimum to zero financial investment needed to start out;
'¢ A wide variety of programs to choose from;
'¢ Unlimited number of affiliate programs to join;
'¢ Extravagant commissions ranging from 20% to 90% of the selling price;
'¢ You're not handcuffed by time, you can work at your own pace;
'¢ Get paid as you produce results with no limit as to how much you can earn.

These are great benefits and millions of online users have tried their hands at affiliate marketing because of these benefits.  But, the simple fact is, a great number of them fail. And the majority of them won't even earn a single buck from their efforts.

Why?  It's not because affiliate marketing as a system is flawed.  It's because they did not use tried and tested strategies in their campaigns.  A sad fact is that most of the people who fail at affiliate marketing are not even aware of them.  Affiliate marketing is all about bringing a buyer and a seller together.  And along the way, make a generous commission for doing that.
The problem that most marketers have is They Try To Sell The Product.  That is not the job of an internet marketer.  His job is to prepare the buyer to make a buying decision, then connect the buyer and the seller.  It took months and months of failure to learn this fact.  It is still hard for me to pre-sell a product because my mindset sometimes goes salesman rather than marketer.
There are some other causes of failure that new marketers face.  Those include such things as offering a product of inferior quality (all of us have bought an e-book that was trash), picking a product that was difficult to sell or getting into an affiliate program that failed to pay or paid low commissions.  In the beginning, when we were all new, it was easy to make mistakes that turned out to be costly.  The absolute easiest way to avoid these killer mistakes is to learn from a successful internet marketer.

There are two great e-books by one of the masters of internet marketing that addresses these issues.  I was so impressed that I bought resell rights to them.  These two comprehensive volumes aim to become the ULTIMATE resources for online affiliates all over the world.  The first volume is all you need to become a successful affiliate marketer.  They covers the important steps of:

The Starting Point
Choosing The Right Program
The Tools Of The Trade
All About Affiliate Links
Website Models You Can Copy
Making It Your Own
The Grind For It All, and
Web 2.0 tactics

As a new affiliate marketer, or you just want to tweak your programs, you will be introduced to the knowledge that many marketers are simply not aware of.  These concepts, that will in turn introduce some magical techniques that, when practiced, will almost always guarantee success for your affiliate marketing campaigns.

And by simply knowing these concepts, you will have an advantage when you implement them for your online business?