The word spread around the marketing world is that you need a website of your own to succeed in business, like "your" place to use as a "store". In this store, is where you are supposed to sell your products. Of course that having your own website is a great tool to build your road to success in the affiliate marketing world. But a "great" tool doesn't necessarily mean that it is the only tool.

When you sell a product, you earn a commission for every successful sale, that's all, right? Everything else is run by the merchant who owns the product. That includes the sales page, delivery, after-sale service and, of course, payment processing. You, as an affiliate, only have to refer potential buyers to the sales page of your merchant (using your unique referral link). Now, since you don't have a website where visitors are sent to the merchant's page, you can still get exposure to your referral link and attract potential customers using the following methods:

-Article Marketing: This method is proven to be a successful way to get visitors to the writer's website in link building campaigns, but you can provide your unique referral link instead of providing link to a website of your own. Take into consideration that many article sites where you can submit your article won't allow you to place your affiliate link in the article itself, but they will allow you to do so in the "resource box".

-Posting in forums: Forums are another great way to promote your unique affiliate link. How does it work? Simple:

Your membership on most of the forums entitle you to have a signature box that is displayed at the bottom of your post. There is where you can place affiliate links, and it's a solid way to advertise. Try to make post in quantity, but don't forget about quality, and try to find a community that it is appropriate for your campaign. BE CAREFUL about posting your referral link in your message body, or even worst, don't make a post or open a thread exclusively for placing your link. That's called spam, and most of the communities dislike it, and you end up having a bad publicity (exactly the opposite to what you are looking for with this).

- E-zine Advertising: This method can get you the thousands of quality visitors, specially e-zines that have a massive distribution. However, this e-zines may charge for the advertising. But if you invest in a massive e-zine, you can get thousands of quality leads paying just for space and placing your affiliate link on it.

This are the best massive methods, and most of them are free of charge. And if you take into consideration that joining affiliate programs is also free, you could be making money with some work but without spending a single cent. So go on and try it yourself, I advice you that you avoid E-Zine Marketing until you are making a profit from the other two methods, that way you can re-invest the money you earn without the minimal risk of losing money of your own, and by that time you are more familiarized on how the system works.

Good Luck!!!