Whatever the reason, there is an alternative, that more and more internet entrepreneurs are turning to in their greater numbers daily. That alternative is affiliate marketing.

Selling affiliate products is your ticket to earning a full-time income from home, promoting the goods and services produced by other people.

Affiliate programs are the weapon of many major companies, and even the smallest product owner working from his home office or back bedroom. They provide these individuals or corporations a way to get the word out about their products or services without having to spend a fortune in advertising costs.

The affiliate, that's you, usually gets paid per sale. The commission can be as high as 75% on digital products which have very little outgoings, due to their nature and lack of physical production costs, no shipping costs etc. etc.

The affiliate is also sometimes referred to as a publisher, as most savvy affiliate marketers sell the affiliate goods or services from topical websites.

For example, if you owned a website dedicated to your favorite breed of household pet - cat, dog, or even parrot. Then, it would be a good idea to signup for a pet product affiliate program and sell their wares from your website. The visitors to your site would obviously be very targeted to this niche and thus your sales per visitor ratio would be fairly high.

Some merchants will also pay per lead in which case you get paid a set price for each qualified name, address, email and phone number that you send to the merchant. Again, sending visitors from your website to a targeted lead gathering form will result in a high number of signups as opposed to sending non-targeted visitors.

Each affiliate program has it's own back office where you can check your sales and commissions. Here you can also find ad copy, banners, and other sales material with which to promote the product. It is in the merchants best interest to provide you with as many ways as possible to send visitors to their sales links - coded with your affiliate id of course.

With such opportunities available to any wannabe internet marketer, it is no wonder that many affiliate marketers are making more money on a monthly basis than many successful job-holders earn in a life-time.

The sky is the limit as far as earning from affiliate marketing goes. The opportunity is there for the taking.