The greatest product in the world is worth nothing to you if you don't know how to market it. Therefore, it is crucial that when you are in the process of establishing yourself as an affiliate, to know affiliate marketing techniques.

Many people who search the internet for online business opportunities are actually looking for affiliate opportunities without them know it. With that in mind we can hardly find anybody looking for resources to learn that art and science of affiliate marketing or online business in general.

Now comes the question where do we find resources to train ourselves on affiliate marketing? Let us first discuss the training methodologies. There are two main training methodology:

1- Get all the knowledge and training that you need then get involved in the business.

2- Find affiliate opportunities that include a well structured training that will show you step and step and with considerable detail so that you can learn by doing. Meaning to apply what you learned on the affiliate opportunity that you became part of.

For the first methodology we recommend that the potential affiliate search for free information that is widely available online. Do not start buying e-books and paid courses until you feel that you have enough knowledge that will enable you to choose the right paid material. What are those free training resources?

1- Article directories.

2- Blogs

3- Forums

For the second methodology we admit that finding such opportunities with such structured training as we are describing is not easy. Yet with the scarcity of such affiliate opportunities they do exist.

Unfortunately the affiliate opportunities that offer a well structured training is only available in one niche which is the online business niche. In previous articles we have talked how affiliate opportunities gained a bad name as most - if not all - the scams are available in this online business model. Within the affiliate opportunities model it is the online business niche of affiliate opportunities that most of these scamp programs are available. But also if anyone wants to get a good training about affiliate marketing we can safely say that such structured training is only offered through the online business niche within the affiliate business model.

Knowing how difficult it is to find an affiliate opportunities that has a structured training offered within their program, we recommend that anyone who is interested in establishing an affiliate business, is to start with the free resources until one of the following happens:

1- Find such an affiliate opportunity that includes a structured training.

2- Feel that he/she got enough knowledge and ready to establish a business on their own with the knowledge that they gained.

What if I found an affiliate opportunity within the online business niche but I am not interested in marketing products and services within that niche. Our recommendation to this question comes as follows:

1- Get enrolled in this program as a learning experience and treat it as the business that you want to establish until you get enough knowledge.

2- Then you can either expand into other niches of your liking or interest, or simply drop that online business niche altogether and search for affiliate opportunities with the niche of your liking and interest.

What we need to say in this article, is that finding a well structured training within affiliate opportunities is the best thing that you can do, but bear in mind that they are extremely rare and available only within the online business niche of affiliate opportunities.