Register at an Affiliate Directory - First step to making anything

Q: What is an Affiliate Program?
A: An affiliate program is the primary vehicle we will be using to make money starting out. Almost every popular website that exists on the internet made by regular non-corporation people like you and me, has affiliate programs and makes money from their site using affiliate programs combined with other strategies. Many companies provide affiliate programs, less commonly called referral programs. Even Wal-Mart and Netflix have affiliate programs. An affiliate directory contains hundreds of affiliate programs from different companies in one place for convenience. Affiliate Programs usually pay upwards of 50% of the profit to you or a static price. Affiliate programs are sold through affiliate links, which the programs will provide for you. Below are some popular directories.

Clickbank.com. This is the most basic of affiliate directories. There are many programs listed, and many other Affiliates (like you) who are advertising them. Clickbank mostly has "digital products", which are usually ebooks, ebooks are usually how-to guides. Clickbank is the easiest to use of the affiliate directories. To register there you only need rudimentary information and it is free. If you want an easy place to start, this is it. This is also the most popular affiliate directory, but that doesn't mean it is the best.

Clickbooth.com. This is the one I recommend. I think it is just as easy to use as Clickbank. But the real reason I recommend this is because the programs are much better, higher quality, and higher paying. Clickbooth needs some more detailed information than Clickbank, possibly, but they are all legitimate places and nobody has had any problem out of them yet.

Those are the two best, Clickbank is easy, Clickbooth is quality. Frankly I don't recommend any other directories at this point. Its not necessary.

So basically here is what we are going to be learning in the course of this entire site in a nutshell: We will take other people's products and market them for a share of the money. To do that we must learn some of the hundreds of methods to market online, and master atleast one. Through marketing we will gain traffic, through traffic we will gain buyers, through buyers we will gain money. This is the goal. By becoming an Affiliate you are becoming a Marketer, and those skills will last you a lifetime.

Oh and about Clickbank and Clickbooth. You want to register as a PUBLISHER. Nobody told me this when I first started, it seems basic details get left in the dust in most guides and they are the most confusing part. A publisher is one who sells the affiliate programs. An advertiser is the one who owns the affiliate program and has registered it on there for others to sell for them.

All Affiliate programs are completely free and they cannot charge you in any way.