Alley answers:

Hi There
I have been involved in the internet affiliate marketing business for several years now. Please believe me when I say there are no quick ways to build lists or attract new affiliates. It takes time and perseverance. It can be very frustrating at times. I have spent hours and hours trying to promote different affiliate programs and attract new affiliates. The biggest disappointments are after working hard to attract new affiliates is to find that only about 5% of them are willing to work at the particular program. The other 95% just sit back and wait for you to do the work for them. If the particular program requires that they have to pay a fee then your recruiting efforts are mostly for naught.
The people that make big bucks in the affiliate marketing business are those that invest large amounts of money in advertising and pay per click marketing. All these hypes that we see everyday about joining super list building programs, video courses, fantastic affiliate programs and all the other tremendous offers is just to get our money. They expect people like us to invest in these programs and fail. After failing most of us move onto another program that looks unbelievable and fail again. That’s how THEY make their big bucks.
I am not saying that you cannot make money with affiliate marketing. There are some good programs out there that will work for the right people with the right skills and who are willing to invest the time and money. I will keep trying though. Recently I have gotten interested in the social networking aspect of the internet marketing. Namely Twitter. Twitter is quick, easy and fun place to meet and exchange information and ideas and you can actually make a few bucks.
I have searched out some great tools and Ebooks that can help attract interested followers! Most of them are free.
For example Social Oomph, http://www.socialoomphblog.com/ ,Tweet Spinner https://tweetspinner.com , Twitter Karma, http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ , Hoot Suite http://hootsuite.com/ just mention a few, are all great programs for attracting followers who are interested in your particular niche.
There are also some great eBooks available to help you, such as My Twitter Tool Box with 350 twitter tools (most of them free)at http://mytwittertoolbox.tk/ or Twitter for Internet Marketers at http://twitterforinternetmarketers.tk plus much more at http://moretwitterinfo.tk/

I wish you great success in whatever your endeavors might be.

Alley answers:

Clickbank
Commission Junction
Share-A-Sale

These are the larger programs – all well established.

You’ll have to set up your accounts, optimize your site, get some traffic, get some clicks, make some sales.

That’s how it works.

Alley answers:

It means he is an intermediary between the merchant and the seller. He gets a cut of the sale is someone buys it from him. Kind of like a commission.

Alley answers:

One of the best I have come across is SiteBuildIt! As you can promote this from your site no matter what the subject. The commissions are excellent and they have a lifetime cookie which means you earn your commission no matter how long after they visited your site that they actually buy.
Also very important is the fact that the product they are selling, the SiteBuildIt! Web building programme, is an excellent product.

You can sign up for it here:-

http://affiliatemarketing.sitesell.com/info1114.html

Or if you want to learn a bit more about affiliate marketing in general then take their free e-mail course:-

http://aff-masters.sitesell.com/info1114.html

I have tried clickbank but not with much success, I find all their products a bit too pushy for my liking

Alley answers:

I use ClinkBank and others. They are legit. Hoplinks will not show up because of cookies on your own browser that they know its you. There are other programs that are very good as well. One thing is that you should not have to PAY to become an affiliate. I personally like reselling for a company that designs websites for contractors.

These guys build websites and offer $50 for any lead you send them that turns into a sale. They have a full blown automated affiliate program so all you need to do is promote their services on your blog or website. If a visitor likes what they read and click on your link to their site and they place an order, the software will send you $50 in your PayPal account. You almost always need a PayPal account for affiliate programs ( or a real business bank account ).

Http://bit.ly/aIpALk

I hope this has been helpful.