Traditional advertising methods such as national television ads, as used in retail advertising are very specific and prohibitively expensive. These methods are custom designed for the retail industry, and would be totally inappropriate at least should you wish to attract affiliate marketing prospects.

It is vitally important to think very carefully about who your customer is and how you are most likely to attract his/her attention. Your affiliate marketing business is internet based, and your customer is not looking to buy a product like a carton of detergent.

Your customer is a real person, just like you and he/she is looking for a home business opportunity. There are myriads of top home businesses out there, from data collection, to home-typing or book-keeping. Affiliate marketing is just one of these. This is a real, legal business opportunity and almost anyone can own and succeed in it.

How then do you attract your prospect? He/she will be browsing the internet looking for one of the top home businesses and will initially examine possibilities that are familiar, or that fall within his/her current experience base. Eventually the reader will probably want to examine other possible opportunities.

It's likely that he or she will change the wording of the question to to widen the scope of the search. Remember again who your customer is and what he/she is looking for. He/she wants INFORMATION about home business possibilities.

Now you need to make available the information about this affiliate marketing business - but in an appealing way. Hard-sell with too much advertising is not the answer!

You will need a Website which describes the opportunity you're promoting, also in an appealing manner. Personalize your site so that it doesn't look like just another of the mass-produced versions out there. You'll almost certainly start off with one of these, but its impact will be much greater once you make it your own. Even if you don't look like a film-star, including a photo will personalize the search for your reader.

Add some personal information to your site - something about yourself, but explaining that this affiliate marketing business has already changed your life. It has already provided you with an opportunity to earn a living from home. You may not be a millionaire just yet, but no matter! You are working from home, and this is your own business. You will quickly learn from the training provided, and you will make progress sooner than you realize!

I sincerely hope that this article will at least have been thought provoking. There will be more on this and related subjects very soon.