Once you have selected a product to promote, you will not just suddenly get a lot of people coming to your doorstep to buy the product you are promoting. Many people set up their website and think "If I build it, they will come", but this is wrong. You must actually put in the effort to promote the product, otherwise no one is going to find it. There are a lot of ways to promote affiliate products. You can use the procedure the gurus rave about, and that is using PPC advertising. You can also use banner ads or pay per impression promotion if you have money to invest in paid advertising. But what if you don't have lots of money to place into advertising? Or what if you don't know muchabout setting up a proper paid advertising campaign and as a result you are extremely hesitant to spend your money on something that may or may not work? Well, there are many free ways to get traffic to your website. There is article marketing, forum marketing, social networking, blogging, podcasting, video marketing, craigslist and free classified ads. These are all great ways of driving free traffic to your site. But one thing you must never do. Never try to do all of these techniques at once. Settle on one, get really good at it and start generating traffic with it, then study the next one. If you can't do it, then outsource it. Pay other people to apply these advertising techniques for you. There are lots of sites online where you can locate virtual assistants for great prices that will do some of the work for you, so you can work on the things you are good at while they do the things you can't or don't want to do. Once you have generated some traffic to your website, you need to utilize that traffic. One thing you absolutely should have is an autoresonder service. You need to have an opt-in form on your page so you can collect the emails of your customers. Why do you need to do this? Simple, because generally people need to hear a message up to seven times before they will buy. Obviously, they are not just going to keep coming back to your webpage on their own, so you need to have the ability to contact them and remind them of your message and what you are offering them. Trust me, you will get many more sales if you have their emails and if you contact them every day for a week to basically restate your message again. You can also email them later with other products you decide to promote. This will make you a lot more money than if you just let the visitors see your site and leave without doing anything. So two big things you need to remember when you are promotingaffiliate products: Once you have your website up, you need to send traffic to your website. Focus on one method, then once you are good at it you can move onto the other forms of traffic generation. Once you have traffic you need to capture their contact information so that you can contact them in the future and repeat your message and promote products to them in the furure. Also, be sure to offer free content to your subscribers so that you don't burn them out. And don't overpromote to your list either.