For this particular article, the title should’ve been “FREE Home Based Businesses”… but oh well, we’ll just leave it as it is.Affiliate marketing happens to be the ONLY home based business opportunity that you can start literally with ZERO start up capital. (And if you’ve been doing your research, you should already know that starting a home business online usually comes at some sort of price.)It doesn’t cost you anything to sign up with an affiliate program, and if you know what you’re doing, it doesn’t cost you anything to market your program either… so literally any money that you make from affiliate sales will go directly to your pocket. But before I start going off on how much money you can make promoting affiliate programs – and I can talk about that ALL day – let me give you a break-down of how affiliate marketing actually works. (That is… if you don’t already know)The would-be affiliate – you – goes to any one of the thousands of affiliate networks that are available online and signs up with them for free. Once you’ve signed up, you get your very own affiliate link that you can use to promote that particular program. And from that point on, all you have to do is send traffic to your affiliate link. That’s it. The sales letter has already been written for you, the merchant account and shopping cart have already been set up for you, and the product has already been created.If you were going to do all of those things yourself, you have no idea how much time, money, and effort you would need to put in to set it all up. We’re talking $1000′s of your personal money invested, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of work put in. Not to mention all the headache that comes along with taking care of your own customer service.So the simple fact that it’s been all done for you should be a very powerful motivator to choose affiliate marketing as your home based business. But if that’s not enough, there is just one last piece of info that I want to share with you about affiliate programs. (This will blow your socks off). For a very long time, the only way that you could get paid through affiliate programs was on a “one sale, one commission” basis. That means that any sale you made, you’d get paid the initial commission due to you, and that was it.If the product creator made any follow-up sales to that particular prospect… you wouldn’t get a DIME of it. But what I’m seeing a lot more now-a-days is how program owners are starting to pay their affiliates on a continuity based comp plan. Continuity means that the product is delivered through a monthly subscription… and every month, the buyer is charged another $17, $27, or $47 for that month’s subscription.So this means that if you refer a sale to that particular affiliate program, you’ll get paid EVERY MONTH that the subscriber stays with that program. Pretty cool, huh?So promoting continuity based affiliate programs will allow you to make PASSIVE INCOME from your home based business… and if you can get paid without having to do any extra work, wouldn’t that be the ideal lifestyle that we’re ALL trying to go after? And now for your action step… Visit one or all of the affiliate networks below. (And I recommend that you go to Google and search for more “affiliate programs” that you can join).Sign up with the network of your choice and start reviewing some of its products that you can promote. Once you’ve picked the product, do a Google search for “free traffic generation” and use some of the hundreds of ideas that will be presented to you.Here are some of the most popular affiliate networks:
ClickBank
Commission Junction
Amazon
Target
There are a LOT more out there and I highly recommend that you look for them.