The idea that you can earn substantial amount of money each month with affiliate marketing is very attractive.
Especially now when every penny is very important.
If you have a internet connection you can easily earn some extra money with too much effort.
Of course the more money you want, then more effort you have to put in.
Affiliate marketing works allows you to earn money by driving traffic to publisher's website.
The more targeted traffic you send the more sales you will make and therefore make more money.
The good thing is, you don´t have to create your own product and very often you don´t even need your own website.
If you visit some websites them a lot of them have affiliate sections, where you are provided with promotional materials to help you out.
You can easily find thousands of companies online who want you to promote their products or service.
If there is some niche like skin care products for example that you know a lot about, you can easily create a blog for free and promote a website related to this specific niche.
If you are good at writing articles you can easily write some 25 articles about any topic, if you do some research.
Then find some relevant keywords with little competition from Google AdWords for example, and you get free traffic to your blog or website.
A lot of people are looking for the latest "guru" to tell them exactly what to do.
And most of these "gurus" tell you how easy making money is and how much money you can make, but most of these are just scams.
I mean if you start a business in real life, you can´t get be a millionaire overnight right? But somehow people believe things are different online.
No matter how much you know or don´t know about earning money online with affiliate marketing, the most important thing is taking action.
There are people who know so much about making money online but they don´t earn anything at all because they don´t take action.
So write down an action plan and your goals on a piece of paper and take action.