The steps are brief and quite simple but of course can be expanded. You are strongly recommended to follow these steps in order to become successful; otherwise you would not get the desired results.

By following the steps the results will speak for them selves.

1. Choose a Market

Choose a market for marketing first instead of the product?
Who do you want to sell to? Men, women, people with health problems, those who love wellington boots!
I'm sure you get the picture. Try to find a niche market that has a lot os searches and is under supplied.
You also, need to choose a market, which suits you. Because if you are not happy supplying to it - whats the point!
You must obtain as much information about your chosen niche market as you can. become a kind of expert in it. This is not so hard because even if you know a little bit you will most likely know more than ninety five percent of the population.

2. Choose a Product

When you have chosen a specific market, that is the time to select a product.
Choose one or two products to start because if you choose too many products in the beginning, you will not be able to focus. Your attention will be flitting between the different products. So it is better to choose one product to get best out of it. Try to stick to one page or blog to promote a product. When you have started marketing and getting the sales you desire, then you can add more products. But don't have anymore than three because your visitors will be confused. Three is best for choice.

3. Build an Auto responder email

After you start your business, you must create an auto responder email. This must have the information about your product.
If you are selling golf clubs, you can build a series of emails having some basic information about them, and how your readers can purchase the golf clubs.
You could also add some 'free' stuff to give away or you could send a presentation on the profiles of some major golfers in the world.
Try to be more and more creative in giving value to your readers in whatever way you can.
Be adaptable and flexible as over the months your sales begin to rise.

4. Build a Page to Capture Emails

Create a page in your website or blog where you will capture information about your prospects so you can send them your follow-up emails. If you are building a business, having your own website or blog is an absolute necessity.
This website or blog will be needed to market your affiliate products to the website visitors. You need to gather the visitor’s emails to for your follow up email campaigns.

5. Use Traffic Generation Techniques

Once your website is up, use some traffic generation techniques. Try different techniques and see what gets you the best results. Then on the basis of your experience, continue with the technique that shows best results. Remember the more visitors you get the more sales you are more likely to make. Visitors are more important than a fancy website.

6. Find additional related products

Once you have started to make a good and reliable income with a single product, then you should add some new products to your products list. Carefully select new products to put them on your website.
Always pay attention to hot in demand products to gain good results.