If you’ve never done affiliate marketing, Amazon Associates will almost certainly be your first stop. Specializing in every type of physical product under the sun, you use their link tools to build affiliate links to very specific products. Anyone can join Amazon, with the only stipulation being that you need to make three sales within the first 180 days. The simplicity of setup and easy approval process often makes Amazon the best affiliate program for beginners.
Affiliate marketing is also great because as a beginner it lets you try out different things. You can try multiple different affiliate programs and try promoting different products. Maybe you promote something and no one is interested, but that’s ok because it’s not your product and you can just move on to the next one.

Another effective way to find quality affiliate programs for your particular niche is to research other affiliate marketers (especially bloggers): Make a list of the top bloggers in your nicheLook on their blogs to see if they have “income reports” – or google their blog name + “income report” – many affiliate marketers share traffic and income reports for their blog earnings and some will also include the exact affiliate programs that they’ve used (occasionally, they’ll also share how much income they generated for each affiliate program):
So you’ve made it this far: your affiliate program is finally done. Phew. But what now? Where are all the affiliates hiding out? An affiliate program without affiliates is like having a party and no one turns up – what an anticlimax. A very depressing anticlimax actually. So here’s how to make affiliates turn up to your affiliate program: 1. Reach out to your loyal base of happy customers