Many online mentors help people to get started online. People want to make money on the internet, but making that first sale seems to be the most difficult task to accomplish. If you are one of these people, I believe that the answer is through affiliate marketing.

When you are just getting started with an online business you have no products or services of your own. It makes sense to promote other people's products and services while you are getting started. Here are even more reasons to do this during your first year online.

Affiliate marketing will help you to:

• Increase your income by promoting appropriate affiliate products to your list
• Learn exactly what experienced marketers do and model it in your own business
• Start part-time while you are still learning how to make money online
• Create relationships with others that will lead to future Joint Ventures

The first money I made online was in the spring of 2006. I earned $21.60 from the sale of an affiliate product on dog training. I had learned how to use a site called ClickBank to find digital products on thousands of topics. Once I made that sale I knew that anything was possible. It also encouraged me to keep working to build my online business. You can do the same thing.

Choose a niche, start a blog, and then choose affiliate products and services to promote. Write articles, post to your blog, and use social networking sites to tell others about what you are promoting. Over time you will gain more credibility and people will want to buy what you are writing about.

Remember that the reason to start an internet business is to give you the time and money to live the life you choose. Download a free teleseminar on building your online business by visiting http://MakeTechnologySimple.com to learn how to write articles, blog, become involved in social networking and learn the technology needed to build a profitable online business. Connie Ragen Green has been online since 2005 and teaches people how to build their own online business in record time, offering free teleseminars weekly, as well as online courses in a workshop environment with webinars. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Connie_Ragen_Green