Learning how to do affiliate marketing is really not all that hard to do, as long as you're willing to take action and get to work once you've learned what to do. Basically, you are writing reviews for other people's products and services. This process is called "preselling" and in many cases it works like a charm. The general idea is to tell a true story of a problem that you or someone else was facing and how the product or service helped to solve that problem. This is just one angle, of course. You wouldn't want to write a review like that for every product, but on many products this is very effective.

The main reason that you want to presell people at your website is because they're going to be sent to a sales letter at the merchants website through your affiliate link already. You don't want to hit them with a sales letter and then immediately send them to another sales letter, do you? Of course not. Your main objective is to give an honest, unbiased review. That means tell the parts of the product or service that you didn't like as well as what you did. This will help to build trust with your visitors because it separates you from other "salesy" web pages and makes people more "warmed up" and receptive to your recommendations. Honesty is always the best policy.

Once you've written your review you'll want to give the prospect a strong nudge to lead them where you want them to go next. You really should have an offer of some kind for a free course or free ebook that they can download that's related to the offer. This is assuming that they're not already on your list. I got a bit ahead of myself. Otherwise, you just want them to click on your link. Tell them nicely, but firmly to click on the link. Something to the effect of "I could continue to talk about xyz product, but you know the old saying that a picture is worth a 1000 words? Why not check it out for yourself Right Now at ..."

Do you see how harmless that was? I basically said "I've told you everything that I can about my experience with this product, but you can get a PICTURE of it Right Now (I capped the R and N) by going to ...

The best piece of advice that I can give you is to test this for yourself. You can get testing and tracking at different places like Adminder for under $20.00 per month that will tell you how many people click on your link. You should always use anchor text so that people don't see an affilate or tracking link. This will make some people shy away from clicking.