Affiliate marketing is the easy, quickest way to make money on line. There are several key benefits to using affiliate programs to make money.

One big benefit is you don't need your own product. You don't have to create and make a product. You don't have to be an expert on a specific topic. You don't have to write books or software. You just have to know how to get somebody to a website that's interested in buying that product that is on that website.

Assuming that you have done your research first you are free to choose any kind of product to market. Places like Amazon, which is an excellent place to start if you are new to marketing online, where you can elect to sell books, dvd's or cd's. There are a lot of products that you could make money with.

There are a lot of health care products you could sell. If you're interested in gourmet dog food there are places where you can go and join an affiliate program and start promoting dog products. There are millions of products in this world that you could turn around and sell. Chances are that if you are thinking of developing a product there is already a product out there that you could become an affiliate of.

Another benefit of using affiliate programs to increase your income is that you do not have to deal with shipping, technical support, customer service and refunds.

I was active on Ebay for a few months last year. Thought it would be easy but after a few weeks of packaging, shipping, dealing with customers and giving refunds I was about ready to pull my hair out. For as much work as I put into it I wasn't turning that large a profit especially when you consider the amount of time that it was taking.

You do not have to invest in anything but advertising when you promote someone else's product and if you are familiar with the topic you choose to promote you can start on a zero budget. You could write articles about the topic or write a Blog about it. If you don't' have any money or very little then affiliate marketing maybe the answer.

All profits come to you. You don't have any employees, hosting and suppliers. You're not answering phone calls or keeping things at your house or in storage. Everything that is involved in getting the product to the customer is dealt with by the merchant of the affiliate program.

Lastly, you can change you business model anytime you want. Say you find that a product you are promoting just isn't a seller. No worries, you have nothing vested in the product, simply drop it and move on. If you where the creator of this product and were trying to market it and had a lot of time and money invested in it you just couldn't drop. You would have to work very to get the product of the ground.

So when you become and affiliate marketer most of the work is done for your. Your job is simply to get people to the merchant's website.