The affiliate marketing company you promote usually have a pre-launch and can offer discounts, coupons, to provide to their affiliates as well. You can take part in promoting affiliate products by promoting banners, links and even emails through various methods. I will explain these methods a little further on.

In order for you to begin your journey from scratch as an affiliate marketer, you must join at least a few legitimate affiliate programs like Clickbank, Commission Junction, ShareASale, Affiliate.com and Amazon.

There are hundreds or even thousands of affiliate programs right now that are free to join, but don’t be fooled by those programs that are not paying affiliates well.

Choose only the programs that are already aged or are included on the top list of programs. Take note that most affiliate programs will pay you every month and they pay through mail check, bank wire transfer or any common payment processor like Paypal.

In order for you to find the best affiliate programs, all you have to do is type “Top 10 Affiliate Programs” or “Huge List of Affiliate Programs” or something related to that on Google, Yahoo or Bing.

Now that you have registered with some affiliate programs, it’s time for you to market their products and offers.

So here are some of free methods to get started

Method #1: Article Marketing
METHOD #2: Create your own blog
Method #3: Youtube Marketing