1 - Research

This is the most important part of affiliate marketing and will majorly determine the products success and evidently your earning potential.

Don't be scared off by that thought as honestly it is also one of the easiest parts of affiliate marketing too. You just have to do a bit of thinking and understand what you are looking at... all i can say is research research and more research and you will choose the perfect niche to start in.

The best thing however about affiliate marketing is that you do the same thing each time and each time you do it, it gets a lot easier.

You may be wondering why i am starting of with teaching you how to look for a niche market first rather than a product but im going to teach you in the way that you should do it every time. Okay when you get better at affiliate marketing this section might not even need to be used but that would require a substantial amount of previouse knowledge in the sector and also alot of funding.

If you put this into a more real life situation...
You want to start your own lemonade stand and sell lemonade at $0.50 a cup. Okay you have your product but if you dont do any research and go and set up in the middle of no-were then you have no chance at selling any. However if you do some research and for example setup in the middle of new york opn a hot day, then you are more likely to get sales.

This is exactly the same for affiliate marketing research the 'area' you want to go into and then look for the product... If there are no products (which is highly unlikely) then even better take a bigger step and make the product yourself and then you make the even bigger money.