Niche affiliate marketing is my favorite way to profit online and one of the quickest and easiest ways to do so. Let's break it down just a little.

If you don't already know what affiliate marketing is, well just type that term into any search engine and you'll get plenty to choose from. Affiliate marketing is simply selling someone else's product and getting paid a commission for each sale. Some affiliate programs pay a small fee for each click to their website from your link or banner.

Niche affiliate marketing is affiliate marketing while targeting a specific niche or target market. In other words, you might be interested in sports, but that's a really broad niche. You would be better to consider a niche market a bit more specific like golf, or tennis.

When choosing a niche or target market, you need to find a happy medium. If you get into a very small niche, you might find there isn't much to market. For example, if your niche were golf balls, rather than golf in general, you might be limiting your topics and affiliate choices.

You might be better off to choose a larger niche. That way you can sell information about golf resorts, golf tees, golf clubs, and even target specific golf products, like Tiger Woods products. By the way, golf is a very popular niche to be in but it's also very competitive.

Way back in the 1990's, when the Internet was new and everyone was learning to market online, each of us created everything from scratch. We figured out what the most lucrative keywords were, how to market with them and then designed and built a website, created graphics, and brought traffic to our sites. And, traffic is a whole major niche of its own and I don't mean the freeway kind!

A lot of things have changed since I started online. Today, you can buy packages for niche affiliate marketing that contain prewritten niche websites with everything included. All you need to do is FTP them up to a web host and market them.

Some of these packages contain prewritten articles and bonus packages to entice your prospects into signing up for a list and purchasing your products. A word of caution though, be careful when choosing these packages.

The amazing thing to me is that you really don't have to pay a lot for these niche affiliate marketing packages and some of them even include training to teach you how to promote them. Well, think about it -- the marketer who created the package stands to grow from your efforts when you promote the package, so the training is in his or her best interest.

I highly recommend that when you're starting out, it will help you a great deal to find a package that includes training. Some have very high price tags but those prices don't really ensure you're getting a quality product.

Because of the competitive market today, the prices have gone down while still retaining a great deal of quality.

So, find a really good product that includes a website you can put up quickly and good training to show you how to drive traffic to the site. Then, if you like, you can build a small niche affiliate marketing empire around it.

Just do it once and repeat over and over. And, over time, your profits will get bigger and bigger. You get the picture!