Every morning that I awake the internet is one of the things that I give God thanks for. Never has it been so easy to start your own business and you can even market it for free with the right techniques.

Anyone from my farmer Grandmother to the beggar on the street can have their own online business. The easiest way to start ones own internet business is to sign up as an affiliate and sell a companys services or wares for a commission. Commissions can ranged from a measly 5% (Old Navy) to a generous 75% (Mysurveysjob.com).

The best way to get started is to head on over to Blogger.com and build a blog. Now, dont back away just yet, this is the easy part. You dont have to know any technical hogwash to create your own blog; there are pre designed templates for you to choose from. Just pick one which suits your taste and in no time you are ready to start adding some meat to the bones of your blog via content.

If you are not into writing, there are thousands of articles sites that you can get free reprint information. Say you want to be an affiliate in the lucrative poker industry, Ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com and many others have hundreds of poker articles for your perusal. All you need to do is follow the strict reprint rules and soon your blogs collar bones will begin to come out of that hole.

Now that you are beginning to get familiar with your niche you will be researching and learning more and more. Then you may begin to compose your knowledge and share it with others in the form of articles.

As your blogs jawbones stop protruding with the nourishment of content, you may feel to start networking with others. Forums are great to meet others with a similar interest and to get solutions to your problems and to help others solve theirs.

To make your blog have those swinging hips you need to feed it with a list. What kind of list? A list of email prospects that is supplied with valuable information on a regular basis via email. You can subtly send them directly to your affiliate links or boldly direct them to your blog with your affiliate links strategically placed to ensure maximum exposure and click through.

Your commissions should be reinvested into PPC ads and ezine advertising especially Solo ads. The urge to get your own domain name and hosting may start to grow and this is strongly urged. But if you choose to remain on Blogger like me then no problem; its not what you have but what you do with it that counts.

Now for the burning question? How soon will your blog go from skin and bones to having those swinging hips? A few months to a year would be a good time frame. If you add just two posts a day to your blog in six months time you would have hundreds of pages with traffic generating keywords intact. Still dont want to wait that long? Look at this way. Even Popeye knows that Olive could not be bouncy like Oprah in two months time. So why would you expect your affiliate business to accomplish that goal?

by Nicholas Dixon Copyright 2006