Hi. I'm a college student and would like to get a start with Affiliate Marketing.

Starting an Internet business can be easy to do - but you do have to learn the skills. I talk about how affiliate marketing and email marketing fit together here... Hope it helps.

For most people, the most difficult part of getting started in the online business world is finding good information that will educate them on the subject in a way they UNDERSTAND.

You have to learn and understand the new skillsets specific to your chosen business model if you really want to succeed.

Learning and understanding new material specific to your business model is where most people fall short, though not through lack of effort or intelligence.

To get started online and ultimately achieve success, you must UNDERSTAND how your business actually works - and most resources out there don't really answer that question.

If you want to know how to start and run an Internet business that will last in the long term, LEARNING and UNDERSTANDING how affiliate marketing and email marketing work and fit together is absolutely essential.

This is a LONG-TERM passive income business model and it works like this:

You choose a product that already exists (a product someone else has created) and promote it (advertise it) to people who are subscribed to your email mailing list.

When people on your email mailing list buy the product you are promoting, you make a commission (usually around 50%).

So, affiliate marketing is when you advertise other people's products and collect a commission when the products sell.

Email marketing is when you advertise these products to your personal email mailing list.

When you advertise other people's products to your mailing list and the products sell, you make money.

Learning the business model of affiliate marketing through email promotion is one of the most sustainable and easy methods if you are interested in learning how to start and run an Internet business.

To build your email mailing list, you must first build a ONE-PAGE website called a SQUEEZE PAGE where visitors can OPT-IN and join your mailing list.

These squeeze pages usually offer FREE gifts as incentives to join the list - FREE gifts that offer the visitor real VALUE.

Once a visitor joins, they are given their FREE gifts.

Later, an email is sent to them describing a product that might solve a problem or fulfill a need they might have.

The actual running of this type of Internet business is very simple - every so often you just have to find products to promote to your list and write emails that describe their benefits.

You also have to drive traffic (or get people to go to) your squeeze page to get people to sign up in the first place.

To recap, the affiliate marketing and email marketing business model for an Internet business works like this:

1. You have to build a one-page website called a squeeze page that offers a free gift as an incentive for people to join your mailing list. The subject matter of the squeeze page will have something to do with what you will ultimately be promoting to your mailing list.

2. You have to choose an affiliate product to promote to your email mailing list. This is called becoming an affiliate.

3. You have to drive traffic to your squeeze page so that people see what you have to offer and will join your mailing list.

4. Every so often you have to find new products to promote to your list.

*The emails that are sent out to your list are not sent by you personally - they are sent out periodically by your AUTORESPONDER.

Your autoresponder is linked with your squeeze page and knows when someone joins. The autoresponder already has all the emails written (you have to write them and load them into it) and sends them to your mailing list at specific time intervals.

If you really want to learn how to start and run an Internet business, you will have to learn how all of this works.

To your success,

Daniel