1. Most often new people will search for products they can sell long before doing any other market research. This can lead to a lot of frustration and wasted time. The preferred method is to look for a targeted market that has a need for a given product as opposed to first looking for products to sell. By finding a targeted market where there is a need for a product and people are actually spending money on the products you have eliminated the hardest part of the job.

While looking at this approach it may seem hard but in reality it is very simple. The first thing to do is to take a look around you. See what people are buying and what they are asking about and what their needs are. it is those products that can fill a need that will be much easier to sell. A great tool for finding out what people are buying is "Google Trends". Simply go to Google and search "Google trends" and see what people are doing. Google is the largest search engine and can be used to see what the general public is up to and what they are searching for.

2. After you have found a targeted market to sell affiliate products to there are several ways to go about marketing those products. it can be done through a website using article marketing with specific keywords to bring targeted buyers to your website. Banners ads, email advertising, and ezine ads can also be effective in drawing visitors to your web page.

One the easiest methods of promoting products that has become very popular is through product reviews. With a review you are not try to directly sell a product instead you are reviewing the different products with in any given market. In a review you will show the good and bad sides of the different products and you will include a link pointing ton where the buyer can go to learn more. The links that you will send to in your review will lead them directly to an affiliate page for a product you represent. This will give your visitors a chance to get the information they are searching for and a desire to buy a product from you that fills their need.

3. You can place product reviews on a website but the number one site to place them on would be a blog. Blogs make it easy for the everyday person to create product categories and to add content. You can easily add your reviews to the different categories making it easy for visitors to go directly to the products they are looking for. Blogs also have a positive effect with search engines. Most blog post are indexed quicker than a standard web page.

If you do not know how to create a blog go to blogger.com or wordpress.com. Both sites have instructions that make it a simple process of installing and optimizing a new blog.

Being an affiliate making money can be as simple as the three steps pointed out above. It is as simple as finding a targeted market and filling their need. Then use the simple tools available to put your chosen products in front of targeted buyers.