So you have a friend or relative who’s into affiliate marketing and you’re just dieing to make some money on the internet. Well before you just leap into affiliate marketing, you need to know a few things.

This kind of sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy post.

Affiliate marketing might not be for you, if….

• You want to get rich quick
• You need to make money immediately
• You don’t have some basic computer skills, such as:
  • Check and send email
  • Copy and paste
  • Some knowledge of HTML
• You don’t know how to build a web site (You can do affiliate marketing without this skill, you just have a bigger advantage if you have this knowledge)
• You are lazy
• You think you can just throw up a web site and expect to make money
• You are planning on spamming people (you could get prosecuted and your email and web hosting accounts could be suspended)
• You don’t have a couple hours a day to devote to affiliate marketing
• You are not willing to spend some money (hosting, domain name, etc.)
• You are not willing to learn and do your research
• You are expecting some one else to do it for you (it’s work and are you willing to pay someone to do your work?)
• You are paranoid of the internet

Everyday I see eBooks, videos, and sales pages telling people how they can make money immediately on the internet. Everyday someone buys a product they do not need and worst yet they go on to buy many other worthless products.

Just how does one learn all this stuff? For any beginner I would recommend, The Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner. This was the first book I ever purchased on affiliate marketing and you will refer to it again and again.

The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People’s Stuff Online

by Rosalind Gardner

The definitive, #1 Clickbank best-selling guide to affiliate marketing.

Again this is one affiliate marketing book you simply can’t go wrong by purchasing.

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