It is a sad fact that 95% of Internet marketers who try affiliate marketing fail to make very much money. Considering how easy it can be this is really surprising but they just do not approach the job in the right way.
From what I can see there are 5 things that will surely make you a failure if you do them. It’s your decision to follow or avoid them.

1. Don’t build your own opt in list
What do you need your own opt in list for? After all, who’s got the time? Remember you have to keep in contact with your list to keep it fresh.
And my goodness!!! You can’t even write. How do you hope to publish your own newsletter? To make matters worse you have to pay about $19 monthly to your autoresponder service.
2. Don’t use Google adwords and other PPCs.
Who wants to waste money on PPCs? How can you possibly be paying for every click on your advert. That’s just too expensive. Besides, there are loads of marketers using them these days and competion has driven the cost up.
I also heard that most of the PPCs engage in click fraud so PPC campaigns don’t look like a good investment to me.
3. Don’t build your own website.
You don’t really need your own website to succeed as an affiliate. Afterall, you’re only an affiliate. There is too much stress in building and maintaining your own website.
You can always take advantage of the turnkey website littered all over the Internet. Come to think of it,a quality web host will cost you about $25 monthly. It ain’t worth it.
4. Pick any product to promote.
For a person to create a product (ebooks, software and so on) then goes ahead to promote it and look for affiliates, the product must be good to promote.
There are thousands of products to promote at clickbank so you can just pick any of them. You don’t have to bother about it’s quality, price or sales process. Just pick one of them.
5.Give up when you lose your first investment.
It’s not good to lose money, is it? To me it doesn’t make sense. Once you lose money promoting your first affiliate campaign, the solution is to pack it in.
That way you’ll be safe and you won’t lose money any longer. Maybe the whole Internet “thing” is untrue.
That’s it. Those are my 5 surefire steps to failing as an Internet affiliate. Follow them if you want to fail and avoid them if you want to succeed.