When it comes to affiliate marketing there are certain things you must understand
in order to succeed and those things are quality, quantity, and most importantly persistence. The biggest key in these three things is that you are persistent and the reason for that is because most times making sales takes time and if you just do a little bit of marketing and then stop you won't have much success if any at all.
The second most important factor in affiliate marketing is quality. The reason quality is the second most important factor is because if you aren't promoting a quality product with a highly converting sales page you won't make much money. For any affiliate promoting only good products is a must so I highly recommend that you don't promote anything that converts less than 1 in 100 because that will be too hard and the sales page would prove that it doesn't work.
And finally the third thing that is very important in affiliate marketing is quantity. The reason quantity is last isn't because it is the least important but if you haven't had much success in affiliate marketing then it is probably because you don't get a lot of traffic to your affiliates from your affiliate code. And if you don't get that much traffic to your affiliates then it is time you up the quantity of articles, website, links and anything that points to your affiliates. For me the most effective way to get traffic to one of my affiliates is by creating a very simple website and writing articles pointing the traffic to those articles. Just think if each article you wrote and distributed to ezinearticles.com would bring you 5 visitors per week then you only need 20 articles to reach your 1 in 100 conversion rate. So get started today if you are serious about a great way to make money quickly.