The best part is the network and support you get in the forum. Plus you get share zone, free web hosting and many tools you would pay for anywhere else.

Don’t forget the wealthy affiliate bonus offer. The investment is small compared to most e-books, but the info is unmatched.

Take care
Ben

The idea is to go to sites that allow you to publish an article on their sites and place a link to your own site in that article.

here’s an example on one of the most popular article sites.
random article

At the bottom of that article is a link to the authors site. Some of the people reading the article will click through to his site and hopefully buy something.

You can do the same and hope that someone likes your recommendation of a product and buys it so you get a commission.

There are lots of sites where you can put articles and if you can write a lot of them ( you do need churn them out ) you can make money without any initial outlay.

The risk is tiny ( the cost of the time you spend writing ) but it may take a while for you to get good at writing or placing well in the rankings.
The reward can be articles that make sales for literally years to come.

Remember that if you cancel your WA account your hosting will be cancelled as well.

MOst of the members in WA are people starting on a very small budget, using article marketing and other free methods to make some sales. One recommendation I’ve heard from Travis ( of bum marketing method ) is to use free methods to earn your first money and then reinvest your profit in paid methods like PPC.

Good Luck

You will find tons of information at this http://www.wealthy-affiliate-full-review.com

FOr PPC, take it slowly at first, spend what your commission would be and then check your figures. If you make a sale but end up with an overall loss I’d keep going up to 4/5 times commission and see if you can improve the landing page. If you have buyers try setting up an email signup form so that you can inform / convince them about a product over the course of a few email.

In general I’d try and find really long tail keywords so that it takes you a few days to spend 1 commission’s worth.
Once you’re profitable expand and scale it up as much as you can, making sure to remain profitable.

Free marketing is possible with bummarketing / article marketing.
try the courses I linked above, bum marketing method and longtailtreasure.

If you start with just articles point them to a domain that you buy.
E.g. at the end of the article link to mynichedomain.com

get the domain to redirect to your affiliate link

If you start to get sales with this method you can build your own site (nichedomain.com) and start collecting emails, just disable the redirect and load your
website normally.

If you create some articles that can be grouped together compile them into a pdf or record them as audio and give a user these files when they sign up to your email list.

If you use a forum related to your niche create a sig that gets displayed everytime you post which points to your landing page or your site.

Just a brain dump of ideas, there’s tons of free methods, concentrate on giving the user something worthwhile / intersting and they will be more engaged in what you say later on ( when you want them to buy something )

Thanks for promoting integrity!!

But I do think that WA is probably the best product for someone starting in affiliate marketing to buy.
There are a few other good ebooks available but it’s the forum in WA and the number of helpful members that really gives it an edge.

WA has been adding features and upgrading things for as long as I’ve been a member and at the end of Sept this year there will be another improvement/renovation.

If you want to wait until then before checking it out you can try
http://www.longtailtreasure.com
http://www.bummarketingmethod.com

both of those are free courses and are really excellent ( both authors recommend WA as well )

If you put in the time and persevere, you will make money. I think that it may be more difficult for some people than others but

I’ve seen some people who asked really really basic questions see great success because they stuck at it.

Good luck!

other recommended prducts are
http://www.conversationswithtravis.com/
and
http://www.oneweekmarketing.com/
(not aff links )
I’ve bought and read both of these products and their authors are members at WA.