More and more people are now trying to give up their day job and work from home so that they can spend more time with their families, which in theory is a great idea.
If you spend a lot of time on the internet like most people, you will notice there is a huge demand for affiliates.
This basically means you do the sales marketing to drive traffic to a vendor's website, and if a sale takes place you earn a commission, thank you very much.
The plain truth is that more people lose money this way because they haven't got a clue what they are doing.
Don't get me wrong, there are some guys out there in their mid twenties earning six figure salaries and driving the fast cars that most people only dream about.
Why are these guys so successful? Have you ever brought a new TV or cell phone and tried to figure out how to use it without reading the manual? I bet you if did a survey on the street 90 percent of people would hold their hands up and say OK you got me, and that is my point.
In any affiliate sales business you must do the training and learn the business first.
All these people earning six figure salaries in affiliate sales have normally been in the business for a good few years, but most importantly they started at the bottom and learned the business as they progressed.
If you are serious about becoming an affiliate you should be looking to build your own website.
This allows you to promote more than one product to the same audience.
Your website could be a review site targeting your chosen niche.
A good website should help you to improve your search engine rankings and therefore reduce your pay per click expenditure.