Not everyone gets to make a living from their hobby. Affiliate Marketing is one job you can do both, have a hobby and make money at the same time. Some people like to grow things (flowers, vegetable garden). Others likes sports, whatever your hobby you can set up a business online to promote your hobby.

You can start your own online business small and work up to replacing your present job. Most people start out slow and over time to build their business where they can quit their jobs and work from home fulltime. Affiliate Marketing is an excellent way to make money online.

Affiliate Marketing is when you promote and sell someone's product. The affiliate is paid a percentage of the amount that the product sells for; this could be from 20% to 80%. What is good about being an affiliate marketer is you do not have to worry about supply, the merchant handles product manufacturing, shipping, and customer support if anything goes wrong.

Before you start into affiliate marketing you need to decide which products or areas that you would like to get started in. Also you need to think about if you really want to become your own boss. You will see many different ads on the internet that tells you how easy it will be to make a lot of money with little or no work. That is not true, you still have to work it as a business. The more time you put in the more successful you will be.

A lot of affiliate marketers drop out because they think it is going to be so easy, they are not successful in the first month so they quit in your business and do the work required to be successful.

I recommend that you find a reputable Internet marketer and take their course before jumping in, there is a lot to learn about internet marketing. In this business as any other business you need the basics to get started. You can learn as much about internet marketing in one good course as you would in a year of self teaching or on the job training.

Do not make the same mistake that a lot of new marketers make. They start off small and do not have any or very few visitors. They get discoursed and quit. The more visitors you can get to your site usually means the more money you make. Also you can use the same visitors for setting up any new sites that you might setup. Build your business to be a long-term business and not something that brings in a small amount of money.

Treat all your visitors like they are very important to you, because in the long run they are. They are the ones that will keep you in business. Make sure you keep them coming back to your site. You should give them good articles and maybe something free, like E-books or even videos in you site so they will get something every time they visit your site. You need to make them feel that you are an expert in your business and that coming to your site will teach them to be an expert also.