Stuff-Selling Entrepreneur>>Affiliation
With affiliation you sell stuff from others and you obtain commission for that, this can generate you more money than the Adsense advertisements but is more difficult, specially when trying to sell expensive products.
The main advantage of affiliation from selling your own products is that you do not have to keep a stock, instead of it, you take creativities (links, banners...) from internet retailers and when someone makes the action specified by the advertiser, you get paid.
I said action because you have some ways to generate money, not only by selling, but by generating leads, clicks, forms... each campaign and each advertiser is different. The best campaign for you is the one that fits with what you are talking about. If you have a web site about cars, you will need campaigns of car insurances, tires, dealers...
Finding campaigns to promote is the easiest part. you can register in a lot of internet retailers for free and search the best campaigns for you. Think that if you always promote the same campaign your visitors will get bored, so with a few of internet retailers you can easily find new creativities and campaigns to change the old ones.
How Internet Retailers Work
First of all I must remark that when I say Internet Retailer I mean a serious company, not these shady multi-levels. When an advertiser willing to sell their products or find potential customers, comes to and internet retailer. At the same time, there is people that comes to the internet retailer to earn money as a publisher, by promoting stuff from others.
Each publisher has it's affiliate number, and people can know when there is a sale, registration or click from a creativity using this affiliate number. There are cookies that are installed in the computer of the customer and if a purchase is done some days later, advertisers and internet retailers know which publisher has made the sale.
