Affiliate marketing is very popular these days. Many beginners decide that affiliate marketing is an easier route, than starting their own business from scratch. They reckon that it is too difficult to create websites, sales pages, download links, payment buttons and so on, so they will just use ready prepared tools, supplied by the various affiliate programs. Their reasoning might be true, but bear in mind that thousands of other affiliates are also selling the same products, with the same t...

For very little cost, you can sell a product online, that hasn’t been selling well offline.  Once it is set up, it takes virtually no work to maintain and monitor.  Even if you only get a few sales a month, it is money that you wouldn’t have otherwise!

Let me give an example. Back before John took his first business online, he had advertised his book, “Secrets of Buying and Building Your Specialty Car on a Small Budget,” in “kit car” magazines (there were only two) for three years...