The first step for making affiliate profits is to find good products with fine sales websites, that are in high demand. You can easily find such products at places like ClickBank.com, Cj.com, PayDotCom.com, Plimus.com, ShareAsale.com, etc

Once you have a product to promote, it is time to apply these 3 techniques and use it consistently to generate as much as $500 every week.

1. Pay Per Click Marketing

This is by far one of the quickest and smartest ways to promote as well as to make fast cash from Affiliate Marketing. If you do it right, you can easily pump in $500 and more weekly from your affiliate marketing campaigns.

All you need to do is signup an account with any of the better known pay-per-click sites, and create an advertising campaign. Within 15minutes, it is possible to start seeing results from your efforts.

Example of the sites you can begin with immediately include; AdBrite.com, Adwords.Google.com, Kanoodle.com, SearchMarketing.Yahoo.com, ePilot.com and more. It costs $5 or less to start at most of these websites.

2. Affiliate Marketing With Articles

This still remains one of my all-time favourites because more than anything else, it can be totally costless. All you have to do is write a quality article related to the affiliate product you are promoting and submit the articles to the major article submission websites. Some of such sites include: EzineArticles.com, SearchWarp.com, BusinessToolChest.com, GoArticles.com, IdeaMarketers.com

Now, here is the great part.

Even if you are not like me who enjoys writing my own articles and find it hard to write articles yourself, you can still use article marketing effectively. You can just hire someone to write high quality articles for you. It is not uncommon to find people to write you 100 solid articles of about 100-200words on topics you specify for less than 4bucks an article.

Places where you can get people to write your articles at modest fees include: freelancewriting.com, guru.com, rentacoder.com

At the end of the article, you are permitted to do a promotion of yourself or your affiliate product and getting thousands of $$ worth of exposure from it absolutely free.

3. Ezine Advertising

There is a direct link between how many people you are able to reach with your chosen affiliate products and how much sale you make. Basically, the more people you reach, the more your sales.

Now that is the summary of everything you'll read in most 60paged books on affiliate marketing. The key is "numbers" and the faster and smarter you can get people to visit the website you are promoting using your affiliate links, the more cash you pull.

To get large crowds quick, use ezine advertising. You can go to DirectoryOfEzines.com to get a huge list of newsletters where you can advertise in. Some of these newsletters will give you the advantage of reaching over 100,000 people at very modest fees.

So, what are you still waiting for. Go right ahead and implement these strategies to create your own $500 a week income from affiliate marketing.

? Oluwafisayo Akinlolu, 2008