The several key factors you should consider before promoting affiliate programs are your business model, your strengths and your weaknesses. What is your business model? What your strengths you can leverage on to create bigger affiliate profits? What are your weaknesses that you can outsource?

Having put that out of the way, we can concentrate on the 'meat': the business model to bank in up to $200 per day with affiliate programs!

1) Find 5 Hot Affiliate Markets

Find 5 markets so you can 'attack' them and reap profits from them with affiliate marketing. You'd want to promote digital products as they are more profitable. Go to Clickbank's Marketplace and peruse the different categories and see which are the products that are hottest. What markets do these products sell to? You'd want to want to enter these markets as they have been proven to be profitable!

2) Create Blogs For These 5 Markets

Create simple informative blogs on these 5 niche topics. You can use Wordpress or Blogger to easily create them in just minutes. As for the content, you can write it yourself, or hire a ghostwriter to create a set of 5-10 articles for each blog. The type of content that I have found works best are product reviews and 'How-To' articles that teach people how to do something specific. Remember to add in your affiliate links so you can earn commissions!

3) Send Traffic To These Blogs Using A Multi-Faceted Traffic Generation System

Now it's time to start sending visitors to your blogs! One of the best free ways to do that is via article marketing. Basically, you write short, informative articles and submit them to article directories. In your resource box, post a link back to your blog. You can also make use of forum signature files to send traffic to your site, post comments on high trafficked blogs in your market or trade links with other website owners. It all builds up to send a daily stream of traffic to your blogs!

Also, here are some battle tested affiliate marketing secrets that might just see you 'kill' you day job:

1. Promote Residual Income Affiliate Programs

Residual affiliate programs are basically programs that pay you commissions month after month just for making the sale one time. These are usually membership sites. It's a good idea to promote these type of programs as its hands free income for you every month!

2. Scale Your Marketing

Once you find a marketing technique that works, scale it so that you can double or triple your results from it. It only makes sense to do more of what works. Remember this marketing principle and you'll never go poor.

3. Build An Opt-In List

It's always important to build an opt-in list before your visitor sees the affiliate product's sales page. This is so you can follow-up with them on the affiliate offer. Experts often recommend at least 7 emails to maximize sales. The reason is this: prospects need to get warmed up to an offer sometimes!

4. The 2 Most Effective Traffic Generation Methods

Here are the 2 most effective traffic generation methods: pay-per-click marketing and article marketing! They are highly effective in generating super targeted traffic. Article marketing is free and pay-per-click marketing may be a little complicated to grasp, but the results are great once you do get a hang of it.