Affiliate marketing seems to be gaining popularity as a way to make money. The concept is simple; you use the Internet to promote various products and if a sale is made through your promotion, you get a portion of the sales price. The Internet makes an ideal medium for promoting products, as nearly everyone has access to it, and the Web provides many cost-effective ways to advertise.

It can be difficult to decide whether a particular product is worthwhile, especially when it comes to informational products. It can also be difficult to decide how to promote a product once you find one that you like. After all, the affiliate marketing world is a competitive one, and once you pick a product you will be competing with hundreds or even thousands of other people who are trying to do the same thing you are.

One product in particular offers some solutions to these problems - Affiliate Cash Secrets. While many informational products devoted to making money online consist of only an informational e-book, Affiliate Cash Secrets offers more. The site is a membership site, although there are some benefits that can be had at no cost. By joining, you are offered the ACS e-book, which outlines all of the important aspects of affiliate marketing - squeeze pages, traffic generation techniques, autorepsonders, and how Clickbank accounts work, for instance. There are many products that offer this information, but ACS offers more than that. A paid membership also includes access to a member's forum, where you can exchange ideas and solve problems by talking with other members.

The best part, however, is the inclusion of complete, ready-made advertising campaigns for a number of currently successful informational products. All you have to do is pick from a selection of a dozen or so product that you want to promote, and creator Derrick VanDyke has a complete marketing kit ready for you. This kit includes a full set of e-mail messages that you can send out using an autoresponder and a ready-made squeeze page that you will promote the product and entice people to sign up for your mailing list. All you have to do is promote the squeeze page; the rest is done for you.

Obviously, there are benefits to creating your own squeeze pages and creating your own e-mail campaigns. There isn't a tremendous amount of benefit to using promotional materials that are identical to those used by hundreds of other people. On the other hand, if you don't know the first thing about doing these things, ACS can give you a good head start by providing you with templates which you can copy and put to use with other products.

Affiliate Cash Secrets is a good product for those starting out in affiliate marketing. It should be noted, however, that 99% of the work in making a marketing system work is traffic generation. If you don't have visitors to look at your Web pages or you don't have people to sign up for your mailing lists, you won't make any money. Still, everyone has to start somewhere, and if you're looking for an affiliate program that gives you a good overview of the industry as a whole and gives you some variety in the products you promote, Affiliate Cash Secrets represents a good place to start.