NOTE:  This continues a guest post series by one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

Pop quiz time.  What does “HTML” stand for?  Don’t know that one?  How about this – what does “FTP” stand for? OK, one more chance.  Do you know how to work with either?

That brings me to the second reason why I love affiliate marketing…

** You don’t need to build a website **

What scares people more than creating a product is building a website!

• What in the world is HTML?  Or FTP?
• How much does the software cost?  And hosting?
• How do I upload files?
• Why isn’t it formatted correctly?
• Why don’t my graphics look like the ones the pros have?

If you are a complete beginner, it can be very difficult (even using templates) to get an attractive website in place. And hiring a professional to do it fo ryou is out of the budget for most people.

But, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to build a website.  You simply send visitors to someone else’s professionally designed site through your affiliate link.

SIDEBAR:  Just in case you’re interested, HTML stands      for “hypertext markup language” and is the coding used to build webpages.  FTP stands for “file transfer protocol” and is the process used for moving files from your computer to a website, or vice versa.

Really, in a manner of looking at it, you get to take advantage of the time and money invested by someone else to develop the site.  Think about it:  when you promote an affiliate link, it reflects firstly upon YOU.  You are the one who is advertising the link, recommending the product, sending people who have interacted with YOU to the website.

The professional site of someone else really represents you as the promoter, in the eye of those who have clicked through your link.

You get the benefits without the bother.

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to build a website.

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of Affiliate Payraise, teaching you a whopping 27 ways to increase your affiliate commissions! Tired of “tiny” commission checks?  Grab your copy today.

NOTE:  The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

Do you find yourself “starting” to create your own product to sell online, but never “finishing” it?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is –

** You don’t need to create your own products **

Many people find the idea of creating their own products to be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.

• I don’t have any good ideas!
• I’m not a writer!
• There’s too much competition!
• I don’t know how to set everything up!
• I can’t figure out where to start!
• It’s too hard!

These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give when it comes to not creating their own products to sell. I’m sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come up with a list of many more.

With affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products. You simply promote someone else’s already proven successful offer for a commission.

And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out…

** Nobody wants to create new products all the time **

As good as you may be, you don’t know everything!  Why try to create a product on every topic imaginable in your  market when you can earn just as much money by simply promoting someone else’s really good offer as one of your profit streams?

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to create your own products.

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of Affiliate Payraise, teaching you a whopping 27 ways to increase your affiliate commissions! Tired of “tiny” commission checks?  Grab your copy today.

Most of us link to our blogs through our twitter and facebook accounts, right? (If you don’t… then you should be, traffic baby!)

But the question is, are people clicking those links? Am I just linking out there into nothingness?

I wondered this for a while, and then I started using Linktrack to see if people were actually clicking the links I sent them.

Here’s a little tutorial video of how I use Linktrack in a blog post:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIvaPUJqr34

I don’t just love Linktrack because it’s the best little link tracking website out there, I also love it because it’s my husband’s creation. (So there’s a chance I might be just a little biased.) But, because it’s his website:

He’s agreed to give away a free account to one of you!

If you want to win a free Linktrack account, all you need to do is let us know in the comments below!

If you twitter about our little give away here, then that’s an extra entry!