Affiliate Marketing is a quick, easy way for someone to get started in Internet Marketing. In fact, while you are in your internet marketing education phase (the part of your internet marketing career where you’re still learning the ropes), most of your experimentation should be totally centered on affiliate marketing.

Simply put, online affiliate marketing is using the internet to sell other people’s products or services for them. For this service that you provide, you receive a commission (depending upon the product, anywhere from 5% to 75% or more.)

The most simplistic affiliate marketing formula is

• Select a product from Clickbank.
• Sell that product using your affiliate link.
• Receive a check.

Getting started with affiliate marketing, as opposed to producing your own products and services, allows you to concentrate solely on the marketing aspects of running an internet business, and is a phenominal way to “learn by doing.”

The wonderous thing about this simple formula is that you don’t have to do a lot of the things that are time-consuming and tedious when selling your own products. Product creation, niche market evaluation, setting up payment processing, writing a sales letter, and dealing with customer questions, complaints, and refunds are things that you don’t have to do - the owner of the product has already done it for you.

Just select a product, use your choice of internet marketing techniques, and deposit your Clickbank check!

Now, while you can literally pick a product a random from Clickbank, buy some traffic from Google or Yahoo, and start banking your checks, there are some techniques that I have developed over the last few years that will help you select more profitable products to sell, and enhance your results.

In the next few posts, I’ll detail these techniques which can easily double or triple your net profits from affiliate marketing, simply by enhancing the above formula.