There is no doubt about it

The life of an affiliate entrepreneur is pretty darn good.

You can enjoy waking up when you want to. Set your own schedule. No need for baby sitters. Write off products used. Travel and still make money.

Get paid great money to tell others about your experiences. Even though as an " Affiliate Marketer " there will be some products and services you are writing about, that you won't even get to try.

And I should know.

Because I'm a full time Affiliate Entrepreneur myself!

Working from home for over 6 years since 2003 what you will learn fast from me is, I'm not into hype! I'm into seeing results, doing what works and dumping what doesn't! as more than my mortgage depends on it, my wife and 2 little girls depend on it.

How I got Started in Affiliate Marketing

To cut a long story really short. Before 2003 I was working a regular out of the home job, providing technical support for Dell, HP and Verizon. My wife and I had put up a baby outfit on Ebay in the early part of 2001 and within a matter of days it had sold to a lady on the east coast of canada. This really was the turning point, as it got me thinking about what other ways there were to make money online.

I spent a lot of time surfing forums, downloading free reports and purchasing books on various ways to make money online and some of the information was good and some of it was just so incomplete that it was of no help at all.

A lot of the information was missing steps and so it left me guessing what I was meant to do next.

Anyway, I ended up dabbling in dropshipping but found that it came with it's own share of hassles, mainly a lot of customer service issues, broken parts and no name brand products.

Not long into trying out dropping shipping I ended up reading a little pdf book which mentioned the word " Affiliate Links "

I had no clue what that was and so I looked it up and discovered the term " Affiliate Marketing " and I learned that people earned money without having to run, own or store any products or services.

Now this sounded like what I was looking for... so I began to look into it further.

Problem was, back in 2001 there really wasn't a lot of information available concerning Affiliate marketing and so I ended up learning by trial and error, which really was good as even though it took me a while to figure out what did work, it allowed me to learn some critical principles for building and growing a business.

Fast forward 6 years later and I'm still doing this as a business.

3 Reasons why am I sharing this with you

1. I wish there had been a more complete step by step instruction book back when I had got started. It would have saved me a lot of time, hassle and money.

2. I don't mind helping more people since there's no possible way in hell I can even capture a fraction of the huge marketplace so I might as well share this info.

3. Over the past 6 years I have avoided writing about the process of doing this as a business, not because I haven't wanted to share it but because when I tend to put my mind to do something I hate to do things half heartedly. You see I like to be sure that I have covered every step and the thought of creating something to give to people that had nothing left out seemed quite an overwhelming task--- but after continually being pestered by friends and family on how to do it, and only being able to give them general information through our conversations. I decided to put together something I could give them that they could follow and it would answer all their questions and demonstrate affiliate marketing through live examples they could copy if they wanted too.

So What is Affiliate Marketing?

I like to think of it as nothing more than another form of...