If you've been looking for a great home business to start with little or no money, you might want to consider affiliate marketing. For those of you who aren't familiar with what affiliate marketing is all about, I'll explain it to you in this article.
Affiliate marketing explained. The concept of affiliate marketing is very simple, you sign up to become an affiliate for a product or service. It can be a physical product that has to be shipped, or it can be a digital product that can be downloaded instantly. When you make a sale, you get a commission.
Many business offer affiliate programs and most of them will even give you your own affiliate website. This is a replicated website which means that all affiliate websites will look exactly the same. The only difference is in the URL people will use to get to your page. That URL will include a code that is specific to you so that when someone makes a purchase from your site, you receive the commission.
This is a great business because once you learn how to do it, you can make virtually unlimited amounts of money and much of your work can be done on autopilot.
One word of caution, while it's completely true that you can make a ton of money with little effort that will only happen after you've spent the time to build your site and get a steady stream of traffic. So at first, you'll have to work very hard. Then once your site is established it won't take much effort at all to keep it going.
Don't ever let someone convince you that you'll be making six figures in a few months especially if you've never done this before. Affiliate marketing isn't a hard business to learn, but you'll still need to take the time to learn it.