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3. Remember how I promised you would only have to work 10 to 20 minutes per day? The key to this is using Internet's ability to automate tasks.

No question about it, you will want a series of canned email messages you can send to people who are interested. Use a multiple autoresponder to do this (freeautobot.com is a good one.) When someone emails your autoresponder address, they get your messages, one each day.

Chances are affiliate program offers sales letters you can use. If not, get a professional writer to help you put together three sales letters. A set of three often works as well as more common seven messages.

4. Finally, get your own web site. It is super easy to build a nice page or two using free systems at Tripod.com and Homestead.com.

While most marketing on Net is done with email, customers expect you have a web site with additional information. Rather than using free site affiliate program gives you, create your own site. Your site can tell your story, help people get to know you, tell why you support affiliate product, then link to your affiliate member site.

There are two reasons for this. Starting prospects with your own site gives you a lot more power to sell. You can tell story of how you used product and succeeded (very powerful!) and display additional products or services that compliment your main affiliate offer.

Most search engines won't list a canned affiliate site, but they WILL list original site you create. Search engines can be an immense automated source of free visitors.

That's all it takes! Do these four things 10 to 20 minutes per day and you will be well on your way to earning with affiliate programs.

Recent stats show average person spends 20 hours per week online. If you get organized, there is no reason you can't use at least a little of your weekly Internet time to work your own small business.

You may want to make this clear to potential affiliates. A lot of people with affiliate programs complain about someone who builds their first web-site, joined their affiliate program, put a banner on his/her site, and a month later e-mail them to find out why they didn't make $1000 last month.

So what am I rambling about? You should decide whether you're going to let anyone sign up, only sites with good traffic, or maybe even warn of difficulties sites with low traffic might have making sales.

The reason is that usually 10% of your affiliates make 90% of your sales. So it is a lot easier only having that 10%. They know what they are doing so you don't have to answer simple questions. It's easier sending out checks. Basically you have more free time and less problems.

If you accept anyone who wants to join, you'll make some more money but you'll spend a lot more time on paper work, you'll have a lot more e-mail to answer and in general you'll just have more tedious work.

Only you can decide which is best for you. Some things to think about are how much money you want to make, how much free time you want to have, what kind of lifestyle you want to live and so on.