If you’re new to affiliate marketing game, here’s a real open-eye revelation: affiliate marketing is dead simple and inexpensive! Compared to other business models, your profits are largely bigger then your expenses and the work involved is far less exhausting, mainly because of the possible automation of tasks.

Now, when I say that affiliate marketing is dead simple, I say that because in concept it is, but in practice you do have to work and find a way to “tap” into the customers browser and that may be a little harder then the concept.

The concept of affiliate marketing: promotion and advertisement of products by a third party in exchange for a commission based compensation. Simple, right? The more you sell, the more you make.

And here’s why it’s the ultimate business model:

• You do not need to have a product of your own.

• No inventory to track or personal sales are required.

• No transactions to track or refunds to make.

• No shipping of physical products.

• No business licenses required.

• No setup of a monster site to display the products.

All you have to do is send traffic to the merchant’s site trough your affiliate link and they handle everything for you!

Compared to the merchant cost yours are ridiculously low. Yes, you do have to spend some money in advertising and tools of the trade like wed hosting, autoresponders and software that will make your marketing efforts much easier, but the overhead expenses are much smaller then the rewards.

The hard part of this business is the competition, the constant learning required and the maintenance of traffic to whatever it is that you are promoting and advertising.

So now that you understand the basics lets get this understood. It takes knowledge, study and patience. Anyone that tells you any different is dead wrong. Fortunately, if you do study and persist you will make great money. It does work.

The nature of affiliate sales marketing is based on doing all the heavy work upfront, which basically requires learning some basic marketing techniques and how to promote and pre-sell products. Once that is done much of the business virtually runs itself.

If you hate working for someone else and want to gradually become independent, affiliate marketing is the best online business opportunity out there. Start learning as much as you can now! Be willing to spend some time studying. I'm sure you'll find it truly exiting when you log into your paypal or click bank account and see commissions generated by people you've never seen!

Sometimes you will endure failure and uncertainty about your skills, but do try to keep focus and with the trends and you will succeed!