One must remember that affiliate marketing is not a "get rich quick" scheme, but a solid business that has the potential to generate massive wealth for anyone who treats it so. The affiliate promotes the merchant's goods and is rewarded with a percentage of any sales made as a result of that referral, while the merchant takes care of product creation, fulfillment and support.

Nevertheless, business owners are not alone when it comes to who can profit from Internet marketing. With affiliate marketing, it's not necessary for an affiliate to have any products or services of their own to start selling online.

Here are 3 easy steps you can take to grow your affiliate business...

You must focus your research to select a product or service to promote that's fits in well with your own web site or interests. Being passionate about a particular product will work in your favor in the long run and therefore make it much easier to profit from your affiliate business.

You can find many affiliate programs in some of the better affiliate networks that will greatly assist you in your search for profitable ventures. With out a doubt, affiliate networks allows for greater tracking and management of multiple affiliate programs, while easily monitoring your sales and commissions.

Focus your efforts on just one affiliate program at the time and stick with it till your making some profits. Only when your first affiliate venture is profitable, should you consider joining another affiliate program.

Unless you have achieved success with one affiliate program, it is highly unlikely that you will have any success in operating multiple affiliate marketing campaigns. Far too many affiliates spread their efforts too thin and therefore fail to reach the rewards that attracted them to affiliate marketing in the first place.

Make use of SEO to boost traffic to your web site, where you will have more referrals to direct to your affiliate offerings. Provide keyword-targeted content on your web site that will pre-sell the sales page of your chosen affiliate program.

Write frank reviews of the affiliate program you wish to promote. Tell your readers about the good points and the bad, this will help to make your message come across less of a sales pitch and more of an honest recommendation. Writing articles about your affiliate product and submitting them to the top article directories will portray you as an authority and make your readers more willing to trust in your recommendations.