When I first started an online business five years ago I imagined that I would profit by selling my own products and by selling advertising on my web sites. I knew that I did not want to offer services like coaching, admin help, or design. I was a VA for while until I decided that it was time to put all the light night hours and effort into my own business, not someone else’s.

I quickly found that selling my own physical products was too demanding of my time. Selling my own info products was hard too because I needed to come up with good ideas and at the time I was short on ideas. What I didn’t “get” was that I didn’t have to come up with the ideas but eventually I did catch on. I decided to try my hand at this affiliate marketing “stuff” I was hearing about. I joined a couple programs and added a few links to my sites. For months I earned nothing and I was just about ready to call it quits on that experiment when I decided to send an email to my small list and include an affiliate link. Immediately I got a few sales. They were really small sales that only brought in about $3 each but it was progress. The best part was that this money was completely passive and this was the biggest perk for me because even securing advertisers was too hands on for me.

I joined other relevant programs, added more links to my sites and slowly but surely I was seeing some money every month. I knew that the niche I had chosen for my web site was severely limiting the type of affiliate programs I could work with though, so I decided to start another web site. This one ended up being my cash cow and right from the start my MAIN objective was to bring in affiliate income.

There was just no need to create my own products when I could sell other people’s products and let them do all the hard work. Of course now I DO have my own products but I am still an affiliate marketer first and foremost.

This week one of the BEST and brightest affiliate marketers on the net has opened a new affiliate marketing membership site called Affiliatenaire. Jimmy knows affiliate marketing and has a reputation for selling thousands of products and memberships in days. Everyone knows that when he sells something it is the gold standard…the real deal. Perhaps they are like me and are also enthralled with his mesmerizing Matthew McConaughey voice, hehe.

I have no doubt that Affiliatenaire will sell out quickly (just like Membernaire did) as he is only offering 1000 spots. The program is an an intensive monthly course on affiliate marketing. You get one lesson each week and if you act on everything he gives, you can start building an affiliate marketing empire in only 2-3 hours a week.

This course would be great for beginners but even better for people who are using affiliate marketing techniques already and want to use some of the tactics the pros do. I plan on doing the full course myself as I have never joined one of Jimmy’s programs or bought one of his reports and NOT learned some amazing new things. The first lesson is over 20 pages long and is really good stuff.

With the economy the way it is I know I am trying to secure as many sources of income as possible. I need to get creative and diversify even more to protect what I have worked so hard to build. Here is to another great year in online business!

Check out Affiliatenaire for yourself…