There are many providers of affiliate programs such as Commission Junction, Tradedoubler, Clix Galore and even EBAY.

I have found a good "no cost" method of promoting my own affiliate links is to set up a free blogger account and write about the product or products that you are promoting. I must stress that you should not copy the sales page that you are directing your visitors to as duplicate content is frowned upon by search engines.

Like most other online ventures it is a numbers game, the more people that you can get to visit your page, the more sales you will make.

To step it up a gear, you should consider getting your own website to play with and control key words and key phrases before submitting them to the search engines and every directory that you can find. You can even set up a Pay Per Click campaign with Google, Yahoo or MSN if you have an advertising budget to start with. One consideration when doing this is to use squeeze pages to capyure the email addresses of interested peopl to allow you to send them any new products you may find.

One of my examples using Clickbank products can be found @

http://www.quickcure.info/

The downside to this is one sale = one commission.

I have been searching for good affiliate opportunities for over 5 years and joined many with mixed results. Most are filled with hype, empty promises and smoke and mirrors marketing.

I have found a very good (MLM) multi level marketing business opportunity called my power mall. There is no cost to join up and get your own mall with 1,000's of brand name stores, no monthly sales targets to meet , no hosting fee's ever and you can earn a small commission down 9 levels.

Simply sign up for your own business mall, get your affiliate link, send it out to all your friends to give them their own business mall, encourage them to do the same. Save money by buying from yourself from one of your own top stores (only if you want to) and earn a small commission from all of your friends purchases down 9 levels. Imagine introducing only one good online marketer. The founder gives an excellent presentation so you don't need to be a super sales person. If you do want in, get your business mall, get your affiliate links and send them out to everyone you know real quick before soneone else gives them a free mall.

Find the link on this page.

http://www.britnett.net/iyf/listings/25.html