If you want to start a business fast, then affiliate marketing is the easiest way to do it. You don't have to spend time doing a lot of research or creating products for your market. You simply find a topic you are interested in that has a ready made market and begin building your business.

There are certain things you may do that will help you earn more money from marketing affiliate programs. Here are seven:

1. Build a website.

A website will do several things for your business. First, it will make you look more professional. You will also have the option of adding more pages to your site. This allows you to add product reviews, articles, and other content to your website. You provide content your readers are looking for, and it will improve your sales.

2. Add constantly updating content.

There are many ways to offer constantly updating content to your website. RSS feeds allow you to display content that is search engine friendly and will help you in getting your site indexed by the search engines. Search engines will visit your site more often because they see is as being updated more often.

There are other formats that are not so search engine friendly, like javascript, that will provide new content for your visitors. You may also consider video.

3. Build a list.

Building a list allows you to recycle your traffic. Most who visit your website won't buy the first time. If you have a list they may join you have an opportunity to build a relationship with your readers and further expose them to your sales message.

4. Write your own sales materials.

If you use the sales materials put out by merchants, you risk further over exposing readers to the same sales message and getting ignored. Rewriting the sales materials the merchant gives you or writing new ones will give you something fresh to offer those looking for what you have to sell.

5. Avoid marketing techniques that don't work.

There are plenty of ways to market your new affiliate business online. Some will work better than others.

Good marketing techniques are search engine optimization, article writing, free classifieds and others. Bad techniques that will get you ignored and waste your time are purchasing products that promise to get you in front of 100 million Pay Pal or Yahoo users.

Target your message to those who are interested in what you sell. Don't waste your time trying to sell someone who isn't interested.

6. Add bonuses to the offer.

The problem with affiliate products is that there are thousands out there selling the same thing you are selling. If you want to be different, offer something extra.

For example, if you sell dating services, let your readers know that you offer a bonus ebook on dating, or maybe something on how to write a good dating ad. Make your offer different and add value to it.

7. Add new offers to your site.

One of the biggest mistakes most businesses make is that they sell one product. This is fine if you offer a membership of some kind. There's always potential for growth.

If most of your offers are one time sales though, you want to have something else to offer your customers. This will increase your chance of a sale and allow you to offer solutions that solve your potential customers' problems.

There are many more ways to make more money from affiliate programs and become a super affiliate. Use these seven tips to help you get started.