If your just starting out in business as an affiliate marketer, you need and must have advice from other experienced affiliate marketers. They have a wealth of knowledge to share with you. Believe me, experienced affiliate marketers are your lifeline. You can not put a price on their valuable advice.

As a new affiliate marketer, you probability have many ideas on how you should go about making money with your business. Let these experienced affiliate marketers critique those ideas of yours. You will be surprised how many of your fellow marketers have “been there, done that”.

Where do your start with your networking? In one word, FORUMS. Affiliate forums to be precise. Start with the affiliate program that you signed up, with if they have a forum. Who would know better about how to make money with that affiliate product? Start right in reading what they have to say and post what you want to say. Start with introducing yourself to the forum members. Before you start posting, read the forums rules.

Your affiliate program does not have a forum? There are hundreds, even thousands of other affiliate programs you can sign up for. Networking is actually easy and fun.

No matter what forum you sign up with, read as much as you can. Other than introducing yourself and telling your fellow forum members a little about yourself, do not post anything just yet. Read what the other forum members have to say before you post anything. Get to know something about your fellow members. By reading the past entries, the topic you have a question about probably has been covered and answered on the forum.

Search the forum for any topics that interest you, that way you will start to know what affiliate marketer(s) share the same interest and you can go to that person and ask questions that you may have and could not find answered anywhere on that forum. That is called networking!

Most of the people you will meet in the forum are already full time affiliate marketers. Many of them are successful affiliate marketers. When posting, always be courteous and professional in your questions as well as your statements.

Remember, you are asking these successful people for help in making you successful. Do not burn any bridges. Most affiliate marketers are people that will not hesitate to share and exchange ideas as long as the question presented to them is presented in a professional and courteous way.
By networking in forums, you will get a chance to know some very successful affiliate marketers which you will be able to “talk” to directly.

When you start posting, do not forget to create a signature for yourself. Your signature will tell the other forum members what you do. If you are networking in a forum that is not part of your affiliate program, just put something like the following: Thank you for letting me post my question, Curtis @ http://www.xxxxxxxx.com or Thank you for letting me post my opinion, Curtis @ http://www.xxxxxx.com. Do not, I will repeat, do not try to sell anything to your forum members. You can be banished from the forum. Knowing the forum rules is very important.

Each forum has an affiliate manager who looks after the forum. The affiliate manager reviews all the posting and even jumps in from time to time to help out with a question. The affiliate manager of your affiliate program has a very high interest in your success. Now there is a person who has a wealth of knowledge you can tap into, providing help with your promotions and marketing ideas. Never, ever be hesitate to email your affiliate manager. The affiliate managers livelihood and the products is related directly to your success. The affiliate manager can even direct you to the right successful forum members to contact for advice.

You will run into a lot of webmasters by being an active member of various affiliate forums but that does not mean you have to limit your contact to just those. A well written professional email to a webmaster can invoke a response and if done properly the results will almost always be positive. As you grow your business, relationships with other webmasters will be very important. They can provide vital linking partnerships and could be potential partners for future projects.

No one can be a successful affiliate marketer by themselves. There is no reason to do this by yourself with so many successful affiliate marketers out there who will be more then willing to help you. Create relationships, ask questions, and be professional and you to will become successful.

By Curtis James LaPiere

Step 1 – Join an Affiliate Program

Clickbank.com is one of the best places to find an affiliate program that interests you as there are a ton of sellers looking for people to promote their e-books and info products.

Step 2 – Promote an affiliate program

You need to have a website to promote your affiliate programs. Creating a website isn’t difficult nowadays. You can use an easy website builder to create a website with little or no technical knowledge.

Step 3 – Decide the Content on Your Website

As you are promoting e-books, you can write a review on each e-book with an affiliate link to the sales website of each e-book. If you do not wish to write reviews, you can create a product recommendation list on your website (e.g., ‘Top 5 Cooks e-books,’ ‘Top 3 Horror e-books,’ etc.).

Step 4 – Drive Targeted traffic/visitors to Your Website
To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely you’ll generate more sales. There are several ways to drive targeted traffic to your site in short period of time (2 to 5 days). Here’s how……

Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
You can get a lot of targeted traffic using PPC advertising. The most popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing and Adbrite.

Post Messages on Forums
Another way to get free traffic is by posting messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted by you. Here’s a technique I learned from an affiliate marketer.

1) Run a search on Google to find out forums and message boards that are related to your affiliate products and try to join as many forums as you can.

2) Make sure that each one of your forums profile is edited to include your website link within the signature option.

3) Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The more people trust you, the more likely they will click your link.

Buy Links / Sticky Threads on Blogs and Forums
This is actually totally new method. You can easy find text link on good PR2 sites with 4000 unique daily views for 10$ – 15$. Other even never method is to buy Sticky Topic on popular forums, this method is not cheap but can bring u huge traffic within month and price for can rise up to 50$ but mostly this will increase your traffic and sales incredible.

Submitting posts to DDL sites (Katz.cd & PhazeDDL.com)
Write Your own e-Books or use Free Tutorials, e-Books to share on this DDL sites to gain extra traffic to your site. This traffic will probably not be focused on sales but some of them will probably read and go truth your site, this way you can increase your sales to.

1. Affiliate programs that are associated with many experts in that particular niche usually are in certain level of standard and quality. Joining one of these programs will assure you that the products of the program you will be promoting are in good standard.

2. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Ask question. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.

3. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.

4. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.

5. Ask for program recommendations in the community forum of your niche. The experienced marketers who see your question may recommend you the reliable programs they have success with. Other things you can ask about are like is the program offers a real and viable product? Does the program provide a lot of free tools and resources helpful to affiliate? and any other questions you think are essential.