For your information, affiliate marketing has always been the top rated choice to easily build your own online business with. Reason for this popular choice is due to the fact that you do not have to deal with the hassle of creating your own products, monitoring your inventory, or even customer service setups. So what is the thing that you have to do then? Well simply you just need to market someone else's product. Period.

Do you actually know that there are a lot of marketing programs which are out there to scam people if you are not really cautious?

What I have done for you here is to actually classify these devious programs into three different groups. And the three infamous catogories are the cheapskate, poor marketer and the commision thief programs.

Let us kick off with the cheapskate programs first and foremost, shall we? These are the kind of programs which will pay you very little commisions for your efforts. For example, what do you think of a program that will pay you 5 percent in commisions for a 100 dollar sale you personally closed? Wow, shouldnt everyone be taking advantage of this opportunity to earn that extra five bucks? Well, I do not think so. In fact, the word pathetic is an understatement for this. My best advice for you is to keep your day job at this point.

Then, what about the poor marketer, you ask? Forgive me, but I do not mean poor in the financial judgement (although more than likely, their pockets are not deep enough). What I truly meant was someone who cannot even serve food to a hungry crowd. There is no way that these people are able to present their products well enough. If this happens, I can confidently say that you also will not have any success promoting their products.

So even if i do encounter a poor marketer offering me upwards of 75 percent in commissions, I will rather step back unless they will actually allow me to assist them with their poor sales presentation right from the start.

Final scenario is the commission thief. My sincere advice is, just do not deal with them. So how do you actually identify this commision thieves? The beginning step is, to suspect anyone coupled with their own private affiliate program (example not Clickbank, Commission Junction, Linkshare, etc.) a potential affiliate thief. If you have to sign up through a private program where the company is going to write you the check personally (or send you the paypal commission), then there is a cause to worry.

Well I have had my share of pretty bad experiences.

Do not get me wrong though. You can still sign up with other people's private affiliate programs. The most crucial thing is to make sure that they have a good reputation amongst their affiliates.

One good way to tell if the program is really trustworthy is to actually find out how long they have been established. Do they have any outstanding references? By nature, any good company will not mind us checking with a top affiliate and see if they wouldn't mind being a reference. Hey, you have every right to make sure you are going to get paid.

So remember, if you are searching for a Day Job Killer, affiliate marketing has an endless potential. Expressly make sure to follow these tips and keep away from nasty programs to promote including the cheapskate programs, the poor marketer, and the commission thief as mentioned earlier.