I don't know about you but when I started in Affiliate Marketing I had "No Clue". It was very hard, I had no understanding about linking or blogs or any of the jargon being used online. I built my first website on something I know nothing about which was Baby Showers. Why Baby Showers, I knew it was a growing niche and maybe just maybe I could make some money from this. I had to produce a product being an Ebook on Baby Showers set up autoresponders and find a payment gateway which ended up being PayPal.

By the time I had done all of this I was about $2000 in the red and had spent six months online constantly marketing this site.

Overtime I quickly learnt a few things about traffic and selling on your own website, but most importantly I realized that not all niches were created equal. There are niches where people are falling over themselves trying to buy the product and there are niches where people want to get everything for free. Yep you guessed my return rate was extremely low and I was constantly receiving emails from my users asking for free advice.

Lets move forward into the future, after realizing that this site was only ever going to be an average performer I then turned to affiliate marketing using a technique I now call the Niche within the Niche. I had to make this site pay and the $50 a week I was making wasn't really a big bonus.

Just to give you an idea of a fantastic niche but with no buyers here are my stats for the complete year 2007 I had 732,000 visits in one year!

As you can see these stats on this site a very good but still no actual steady ebook sales. I also was receiving around 120 subscribers a day all asking for free information so I set up an autoresponder series using Aweber to send out all the free information my subscribers were asking for. The email consisted of just a teaser to the topic and if they wanted more they had to visit the page that was set up. This page contained adsense and also affiliate links which was now being put right in front of them.

The end result was an increase in ebooks sales but again nothing spectacular an additional income stream from adsense of $300+ a week plus something that even surprised me…

I was also promoting clickbank products and after some trial and error I found the right mix of products that were working on the site. I also make around $300 a week from Shareasale products as well.

You can see for yourself with a little persistence and some determination you can turn your online busines around,I have gone from making $50 a week and considering just letting the website go and staying in my 9 to 5 job to now creating a passive income on auto pilot that is worth over $100,000 a year.

Set your goals and stick to them and you will succeed in affiliate marketing. I have now created seven websites that are doing just this I have only shown you one of my clickbank accounts I have six. So you can see there are Benefits in Affiliate Marketing if you just choose to be persistent and patient.