Affiliate marketing is a very popular and fast growing way for normal people to start a home based business with no money and no product.
In this short article I am going to go over the best affiliate marketing companies out there and I'm also going to give you a brief overview of what being an affiliate marketer actually is.
Affiliate marketing is when you advertise and promote other peoples products or services and earn commissions each time you close a sale.
You don't need to have any money to be able to sell other peoples items and you certainly don't need your own product obviously.
Most big companies and small Website's will allow you to become an affiliate to a certain product and they will then provide you with a referral link which is the Website address that you will advertise and get credit for when people buy things.
Affiliate marketing can be done in 2 ways which are by selling digital products that people will get instantly like ebook's and audio's but you can also advertise solid products such as iPhone, computers and iPod's.
With digital products you can earn up to or even sometimes more than 70% commission which means you can potentially make more than the product creator.
Solid products usually offer much less generous commission which are around 10 - 20% because they are usually hot sellers.
The key to success with this line of work is being able to drive traffic to a Website or blog and once you have mastered how to do that then you can easily sell anything on the Internet.
What you need is a step by step coach and mentor to show you the path to success with this industry.