How to start a home business Selling other people's stuff

Have you ever wanted to start their own business online business home, but have nothing to sell or services to offer?

Well you're lucky because users can help online merchants to sell their products and earn a commission in this way. It's called affiliate or associate programs. Thousands of merchants, who NutriSystems Capital One, Merrill Lynch, Citi Financial, Priceline, Old Navy, etc. run programs where affiliates can earn commissions.

This is how the merchant handles the sales letter, order processing, product manufacturing, customer service, follow-up, etc. So there is no inventory in stock for you, all you do as a membership is to go out and promote and advertise the product.

Most affiliate programs are free to join and only requires your e-mail, name, social security number (for tax purposes), mailing address, etc.

You will receive a tracking URL, and when potential customers click on that link you will get credit for the visitor to the merchant's website. Depending on the program, when one click lead, sale, etc. I created as a reference the affiliate earns a commission. Fees will vary, for example programs that pays you for clicks and leads will pay less sales-oriented programs.

Some affiliates generate traffic to merchants using its website, but many others use free services like youtube.com, squidoo.com, craigslist.org, facebook.com, blogger.com, etc. and use it to pre-sell visitors before sending them to the merchants site. Many of these free websites do not require any knowledge of HTML.

Some of the largest affiliate directories are cj.com, associateprograms.com, shareasale.com, clickbank.com, etc. There are dozens of directories that have thousands of merchants that offer affiliate programs. Affiliate programs can be a partnership "win-win" for both merchants and affiliates .......