Affiliate Marketing Tips Are you frustrated at how little money you are making as an affiliate marketer on the Internet? Maybe you have worked hard to promote your website but seen very little reward for your effort in terms of sales and commissions from the affiliate products and services that you feature on your website. It is of course doubly frustrating when you know that other people are making a very comfortable living with their affiliate commissions. So what is the real secret to selling affiliate products on the Internet? Is it really something that anybody can do? Or do you need to have a very special set of skills to make money on the Internet? Actually, the good news is that anybody of average intelligence can make a very nice income for themselves through affiliate marketing on the Internet. Yes, you will need to have above average levels of persistence and focus, and you will have to be willing to learn a few lessons. But affiliate marketing on the Internet is not some kind of voodoo, and you don't have to be a geek in order to make money. Far from it. In fact, the skills you need to generate are more to do with being sociable and friendly than being a techno-whiz. But beyond that, there is one important thing that every successful Internet affiliate marketing entrepreneur does which the great majority of wannabe affiliate marketers fail to do. Check out any of the phenomenally successful Internet affiliate marketers and you will find that they all have products and services of their own that they promote first. Furthermore, they use those products and services to brand themselves in the particular market that they focus on. The successful Internet marketer sells his own business on the front-end, and generates massive backend sales for the affiliate products that he also promotes. With your own products and services to promote, you will find it much easier to make space for yourself in a highly competitive field. If you have your own unique report to offer as a free download, you will find it easier to build your list. If you have your own product(s) or service(s) to offer you will be able to stand out from the pack. Then, once you have made your first sale, you will be able to come back to your customer with a follow-up offer. As trust builds between you and your customer base, you will find it much easier to recommend third-party products to them. Of course, the products you offer your customers should be top quality. The best place to start is with products that you use yourself. The fact that you use something that you are recommending is itself a very strong endorsement. So, if you want to earn a fortune selling affiliate products on the Internet from both  commissions and residual income, start by producing an original product of your own and promote it, and yourself first. That way you will be on the right path to earning a healthy income as an Internet affiliate marketer.