Did you just do a search on yahoo, google, i.e. For affiliate marketing to learn what it is because you had seen it or heard about it and may want to try it? Affiliate marketing is when you find a product of someone elses and sell or promote it on the internet to get a commission.

The commission could be a fixed amount or it could be a percentage of the product, lets say that you have product A with a cost of 24.95 you send a person to the site through your link and that person buys product A your cut may be 15.00 one time payment. A pretty good deal.

Then there is the residual income method where the same product is 24.95 and the merchant pays 10.00 up front and pays 10.00 every month that the person is associated with his or her company. A Better deal you can make more in the long run.

There are a lot of companies that pay residual income you need to really read the agreements that each merchant is offering.

Affiliate marketing is the best ways to start a business on the internet you dont need a website to be an affiliate, but it would be helpful if you join more that one company. I think that this will be the job of the future. Traditional jobs are fading and people need to start thinking about their finances.

Affiliate marketing, has become very popular in online marketing and should not be looked at lightly it can be very, very lucrative and getting in now would be most beneficial.

Dont think that it will be easy this is a hard business to get into and really get the money that you hope for but with persistence and hard work you can make a 6 figure income, it is being done everyday.

Becoming an affiliate is free on the majority of sites that have affiliate programs you only have to join on the merchants website.

Usually the merchants offer free things to get people to join just like in marketing benefits, benefits that is how the merchants get people to join.

Now people would like to get the higher commission that is a one time payment but is this wise as I said residual income pays commission as long as the person is associated with the company, say the person keeps the hosting account for 2 years then you have gotten 10.00 per month for 2 years which is $480.00 and I think that is a much better deal but that is up to the person, money wise it is a better deal but you may need the higher amount for some reason.

So it is up to you which one is but residual income is by far the better deal, and I am here to help you make money not right now but for life to have it better and I would hope that you feel the same in my opinion the best way to do this business is to get some that pay

the higher commission and some that pay residual and that way you are building for the future and getting some quick money. I think that if you are going to do it this way you need to get a website set up and promote, that way you will be promoting all at the same time which will save you some time and money.