Affiliate marketing is by far the easiest way to start online business. You don't need to create your own product, deal with customer support, returns, payments and other tasks. Affiliate simply is a middle man between product vendor and customer, and a sole role for affiliate is to market a product. For the effort, affiliate will receive a cut from the sale (commissions) frequently as high as 75%.

With a huge supply of products available to affiliates, you can start affiliate business in pretty much ANY market - from selling ringtones, how-to ebooks to cruise vacation packages. However, my recommendation is start with products that will pay you $20 and up in commissions. Many affiliates begin with selling ebooks from Clickbank and Paydotcom. Both networks provide big selection of ebooks and courses in a variety of markets.

Ok, you have selected products you want to promote as affiliate. Next step should be to clearly define your online presence strategy (no site, one-page review site, blog, others) and how you are going to market and drive traffic to a product (pay-per-click networks, free ads site, publishing product on a blog). Spend some time on these tasks, educate yourself if something is unclear, and make sure you understand what you'll be doing. Don't make a mistake to jumping into the marketplace too fast, especially advertising using Adwords. You can lose a lot of money before you know it.

Please don't just sit on this information. Go ahead to clickbank.com and explore their product offerings. Open up an account with Clickbank, it's free and easy. Choose products you'd like to promote as affiliate, and establish your marketing and traffic strategies.