- Can You Make Money Without Creating Your Own Products

by : Christopher Raine

If you have not heard of affiliate marketing you could be mistaken in believing that you need to have your own product or service, but this is not the case. There exists a form of making money on-line that relies on promoting other peoples products in exchange for a commission and this is known as affiliate marketing.

So now you understand that you can earn a living by promoting someone else's product it is important to realise that there are two main categories for affiliate marketing products, these are physical and digital products. Quite simply a physical product will be one that will be shipped to the customer, and a digital product will be one that the customer will be able to download.

Which area should you choose will be down to personal choice and will be driven to some extent by your interests or niche you wish to promote. So what is the difference, well apart from the fact that one is physical and tangible and the other is digital there are also other differences. Lets start by looking at digital products, if you wish to promote these you can regularly expect to see commissions in the range of (between 50-75%), these are more than you could expect from physical products.

However, although my preference is to digital products there are many affiliate marketers who make a lot of money as an affiliate for selling physical products. The commissions are usually lower, but the price tags for the products are usually more expensive.

Ultimately you need to decide for yourself so you should look at the pro's and con's of both areas and decide what you want to concentrate upon.

Having examined both methods you may decide to promote both digital and physical products, and there is nothing wrong with this at all. In time you can analyse which is making you the most money and hence decide what suits you best. If you decide to promote digital products you cannot look much further than Click Bank and Pay Dot Com which are two of the best places to find digital products that you can promote. If your niche matches one of the categories offered you will find that you have many products to evaluate all in one place to help you find exactly what you are looking for.

If you choose physical products you will find no shortage of affiliate marketing schemes for the affiliate marketer. So many sites and choices exist and too many to list or go into detail here, although you may want to take a look at affiliate marketing networks like Commission Junction, Share A Sale, or you could go to any search engine and search for affiliate programs associated with the product you would like to promote.

Start off with one product, find a method of creating success and then replicate this with other products. In time and when your expertise grows you can increase your earnings at will by promoting another product, followed by another and so forth. The great thing about affiliate marketing is that once you have the system you can pick up earnings from promoting other peoples products but without the headaches of product development and costs and after sales support.

Now pick your niche, your product and educate your self on how to implement an effective affiliate marketing system to succeed in this business.