Internet marketing is an attractive idea to make money on the side that eventually will become a full time income. Sadly, there is a lot of hype around this activity with thousands of products that promise outrageous incomes in 30 days or less or whatever other hype they can think about. But the overall premise is that you will be a multimillionaire by the time you finish reading their eBook and implement their techniques to dominate AdWords and Clickbank products.

However, the 3 best things to do to succeed are:

1. Learn how to drive traffic to your site for free. This means, learn SEO. Don’t depend on AdWords and CPC campaigns. This can be very costly if you don’t know what you are doing. AdWords is a great way to test a new campaign as long as you know how to properly set it up. Most people fail very fast and go into debt because they fail to do proper keyword research and set up their campaigns the right way. If you want to use AdWords as a way to drive traffic to your site or offer, you should consider reading Perry Marshall’s AdWords Definitive Guide.

2. Don’t buy every eBook that promises huge payouts in a matter of weeks. Most of these are hype and will under deliver. Take your time to research the products that you want to buy to study or to promote. A great place to do this research is 24hrprofits.com You will find consumer reports and product fact sheets without hype or bias and it will save you time and money.

3. Take your time. Don’t get discouraged because it’s been a month and you haven’t made any sales. This will take time. But if you stay the course, educate yourself and focus on the fundamentals, you will succeed.

In my opinion, one of the best products if you are starting on Affiliate Marketing is Commission Blueprint. Commission Blueprint combined with Perry Marshall’s AdWords guide will give a big boost and will be a great resource. Commission Blueprint has a step by step approach and it will show you via online video and training pdf ebooks, how to properly do keyword research, set up your AdWords ads, product selection and scalability of winning keywords and landing pages combinations. The course also includes templates for landing pages that will help you get started if you don’t know how to fully design html websites.

This is by far the best product I’ve seen in a long time and it covers both free and paid methods to set up winning campaigns. The system, if worked as taught will give a huge advantage over other affiliate beginners that are struggling with PPC or other ways to drive traffic to a site. Even if you decide to not use AdWords as a means to drive traffic, it will still be a great way to learn the whole process of affiliate marketing and how to make money online, whether your interest is supplemental income or to eventually make it a full time activity.