Well within a month I made my first $500 from and affiliate product. I managed to do this even though I come from South Africa, the Dark Continent so if I can do it so can anyone else.

Well Like everything, and affiliate marketing and making money on line are no exceptions you have to learn one step at a time and I had made many mistakes. But each mistake and each milestone reached taught me a whole lot about how to make money on line and in month 2 I made $ 3600 and this is now month 3 and I have made another $3600.

But having said that here are 10 Things I wish I knew before I started

1. Buy a ?how to? Affiliate marketing product or subscription: seriously you could find out a lot from free websites reading articles forums etc but it takes longer and you will end up being sold a product anyway (I Know ) so just buy one. They help put all the basics in place for you personally suggest maverick money maker see my link but check out the net and find what suits you.

2. Set up a website ASAP don't take too long to do this, it's a huge learning step, and a huge possible money maker plus its fun and really it is very easy.

3. Read, read and read; every affiliate site, affiliate eBooks and email there is tons of information get us much knowledge as possible but not so much that you don't get to step 4.

4. Do something, this is the fun part by do I mean open a clickbank account a paydotcom account a commission juntion account. Start a website put google adsense on it. Open an ebay account find a product start a PPC campaign these are all things you will have to do to make money from affiliate marketing or off the internet so do it now.

5. Have fun, seriously it is fun and more so when it brings in money, mark all your milestones and you will see how much you have learned.

6. Don't get down when you are not making instant money. Everything you do is learning for your next million

7. Don't spend your first check on anything but reinvesting in your affiliate business, because that way you can take more risks and it wont cost you anything.

8. Add new products as often as you can but not just for the sake of adding them, if you see a product and you understand it and think you can profit from it, do your homework and start marketing it don't delay.

9. Adwords is no the holy grail, it is not even a central piece of the puzzle, it is just a tool and can make you money but do not ignore all the other great tools the internet offers (emails, ezines websites, classifieds, forums, and many more)

10. As hard as it may be to believe the internet is still in its infancy do not become discouraged thinking the market is saturated, true it is harder to be an affiliate now than 5 years ago but there are also more people buying everyday stick with it.

Put in the effort read and do and everyday you will be closer to making the affiliate millions we have all heard about, I know there is money on line.

Thanks for reading this hope you got something out of it