Affiliate marketing is a great stepping stone for you to learn about successful affiliate marketing. There is no product creation, you don't need to collect payment and the delivery is done by the merchant. All you need to do is to focus on promoting your affiliate link.

Below are some simple steps to help you build a successful online marketing business:

1. Register as an affiliate

Affiliate network is where the merchants offer their affiliate programs and affiliates search for affiliate programs to join. There are several affiliate networks you can try and you will get a hand full of them with a simple search online.

Joining affiliate network should be free. You need to be careful if they ask something from you in advance.

You can join two or three affiliate programs that best suit your skills and interests and promote them in the best way you can. When you are choosing an affiliate programs, make sure that they are available world wide instead of just limited to certain region.

2. Broadcast your offer

Now, if people don't see your offer, you will not earn any money. You are just burning your savings if you do that. A lot of affiliate marketers give up the business because they don't earn any money and often this can be solved simply by having more prospects to look at your offer.

If you want to save your money and have a successful affiliate marketing career, you can always start with a blog. Then post quality contents on your blog so that your visitors can learn something out of it.

You can even ask your visitors to enroll for your newsletter. Now you can add more value to your visitors and offer what they need.

3. Advertising your affiliate link

By now, you should know how important your affiliate link is to your successful affiliate marketing business. But the big question is, how do you advertise your link effectively and save cost?

Again, blog is a great place to start and you can just put your affiliate link under your signature after every post. Stop worrying about HTML at this point. What you need now is to know that you can earn money online.

The next thing you need to do is to have more people visit your blog. You can submit articles with your blog address to article directories, submit your blog to blog directories or syndicate your blog with RSS feed.

4. Try new things

Let's assume you are earning affiliate income from your blog. It is time you stretch your arms into other marketing methods to earn more money. You do want to earn more affiliate income. Don't you?

So, get professional help to set up your website or perform search engine optimization (SEO). Your goal is to get your website rank as high as possible in the search engine results page (SERP