Due to the huge earning potential, a lot of people start working as affiliate marketers nowadays. It is very true that there is a chance to make tons of money with affiliate marketing. However, one will just fail if one does not know how to begin. It will be essential for one to plan it well before starting to work. As a result, it is the aim of this article to give people who want to be affiliating marketers some tips and guides to start working. As a matter of fact, it is not hard to start the business. The followings are the 3 steps involved when starting the business. A Market Without any surprise, you will need to find a market for you to work on first. To the end, a niche market will be suggested. This is because dominating a niche market is totally possible. And there is no doubt that doing the same in a mainstream market will be just next to impossible. A Keyword Then you will do the keyword research. You are trying to find some keywords which are related to your niche market. Another criterion for the keyword is that not many websites are targeting at the keywords. This means that there are only little competitions. And of course, it is also very important that a lot of people are performing searches using the keyword every month. Regarding the keyword research tools, you can try some free tools first. If you have a Google Adwords account, it is recommended that you try the keyword tools provided first. If you think you need something even more advanced, you can try some paid tools such as wordze and keyword discovery. A Website You have to build a website in order to promote the affiliate products. You will need to create the site using the keyword you found. Remember to write quality and original articles with the keyword in your mind. This will help to drive traffic to your website since the search engines love keyword rich and original articles. Then you will drive targeted traffic to your website. If you have some budget, you can consider launching a Google Adwords campaign. However, in the case that you do not have any budget on the promotion of the site, you can try to go to online forums and newsgroups to promote your site. Yet the bottom line is that you should never spam other websites.