Okay lets take that one a little slower! Affiliate marketing is one of the best start-up income opportunities simply because your outlay is minimal or non-existent. Here's how it works in detail.

Many businesses selling anything and everything from services and products need to advertise, and, as we all know, advertising can be expensive. If you owned your own business and had an advertising budget of say £50,000, you could place adverts where you think they will generate the best income opportunities, but in reality, you have no guarantee of any level of income from that marketing campaign. In fact, you could blow you entire adverting budget without generating any income at all.

That's where affiliate marketing comes in. Businesses supplying goods or services create a range of attractive adverts and register with an affiliate marketing programme such as ClixGalore, Affiliate Future or Paid on Results, to name but a few.

People like yourself, exploring ways to generate the best income opportunities, then place one or more of these adverts on their internet portals, preferably alongside similar items. If a customer then clicks on the advert and subsequently makes a purchase, then you receive a proportion of the sale, at no cost to yourself (normally around 5-12%).

This is great for both advertisers and people like yourself. The advertiser gets free advertising and increased sales, and you get a slice of their profit at no cost to yourself; no stocking of goods, no refunds and definitely no hard work.

Now, lets be honest you're not going to make a fortune this way, unless you have a very high traffic site, with a similarly high click through rate, even though this is one of the best and most effective income opportunities. If you have an existing site, say, about Teddy Bears (okay, lousy example), you can easily generate a modest income by having advertisements about teddy bears on your site. After all, those visiting you already have expressed an interest in the product range, so they're ripe for conversion if they see an advert regarding the product they like.

But what if you don't have a website? The easiest way to exploit these best income opportunities is to create a blog. For example www.blogger.com. Its totally free, and you can write a journal and place context rich adverts alongside your own text. In fact, you can create as many blogs as you want, each with a different theme and set of adverts. You might not make a fortune, but you've absolutely nothing to lose apart from a bit of your time. One blog we have come across that uses this technique very effectively is latestproductreviewonline.blogspot.com

They have simply created a blog, review products, then place a contextual advert next to their script for a high conversion. Simple! Another way to do this is to create a site, say a games site, and have relevant adverts next to the games you offer. Again, we've seen a good example of this at www.purely-games.com They have cleverly placed affiliate adverts around their site so that, whilst users wait for the game to load, they're attracted to the adverts displaying relevant wares, increasing the chances of a click through and sale.

Of course, this is only a start, you can supplement this concept further by placing GoogeAds on your site, one of the best income opportunities around. Click here for more details.

Now ClixGalore take the concept of affiliate marketing one step further for not only can you display relevant adverts on your internet portals, but you can also actually advertise products with their unique store-builder concept. Essentially you identify the advertisers that are relevant to your portal, then if available, you apply for their store builder. You are then sent complete web pages with pictures and descriptions to simply integrate into your site. No programming, no fuss! It really is as simple as that! Again, you hold no stock, nor are involved in the shipping of the goods, you simply pocket the commission. There are hundreds of ready made product pages using this concept, so their website is worth a look by clicking here.

This section gives you a brief overview of affiliate marketing. For our complete affiliate marketing section, please click here.