So what happens now

The concept of affiliate marketing may seem easy, you find a product to promote, you drive traffic, a sale is made and you get paid a commission. If life was this easy right!

The first thing to consider is this, not all affiliate schemes, or products for that matter are created equal. So what do I mean by this? well various affiliate schemes will provide more support than others in the form of affiliate tools, some will pay out quicker than others, and ultimately some affiliate schemes will be more trustworthy than others.

With regards to products, the sales page will have a large bearing on if the site converts or not. A product vendor may have a great product, but a poor sales page that just does not convert its visitors. Your own gut reactions often tell a story when it comes to this aspect, if you visit a page and it does not grab your attention, many more are likely to feel the same.

In the long run having your own hosting, domain names and a system for building your business are all important. The term the money is in the list is probably a term you have heard, this is what I call the foundation on which you can build your business....but if you truly are wanting to see if it is possible to try affiliate marketing at no cost, the answer is "yes".

Domain names, hosting, list building can all wait for another time....so where do you start? Clickbank, that's right you may already have heard of them, If not Clickbank is one massive digital product market place, that has products in multiple niches, waiting for affiliates to promote.

There are well over 10,000 products in the market place and anyone can register for an account Free of charge. Clickbank provides a sizable amount of data that enables anyone to assess whether a product is popular and worthwhile investing time and energy in promoting, these include stats that show how much business is referred to that product, and an indication of the volume of affiliates promoting to name but two.

You are also able to see the pitch page (sales page) and decide on how you feel about the product.

So what happens now, you've found a product....but you have no website! There are plenty of Free resources where you can build a promotional plan without paying anything.

Sites like Weebly, Blogger, Wetpaint can all be used as your marketing hub, and website traffic can be driven through having Squidoo lenses, Hub pages, Wordpress blogs, press releases, blog posting, article submissions and much much more

On top of this there are many Social networking sites and social book marking sites that can be used to create links to your site and bring visitors back to your Free website.

This system works largely on the power of articles and you would be surprised how you can start to use just a couple of articles in different ways to promote your offer.Using these resources is what I like to term, "The No Money Down Affiliate System"