Marketing tips and tricks for newbies
As a newbie you may have various options:
Article Marketing
Write great positive reviews of the products you are promoting
Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews
Post yours reviews on sites such as Goarticles.com or Ezinearticles.com
Blogging
Create a free blog using a blogging platform such as Blogger.com
Write posts (reviews) of the products you are promoting
Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews
Then ping your blog at a site such as Pingomatic.com
Your posts will be picked up quickly by search engines
Social Bookmarking
Welcome to the Web 2.0 era!
In order to make it easy for your readers to save and share your content you may add social bookmark links to your blog
Link: SocialMarker.com
Forums
Join popular forums, go into your forum profile and edit your signature
Make a signature that includes your affiliate link(s), or links to your own reviews
Make frequent relevant contributions - Don't spam!
Depending on what you are promoting and the forums you are joining you will target direct sales or subaffiliates
Social Networking
Use social networking sites to promote your relevant reviews blog if any
Don't spam with affiliate links!
PR
Once every few weeks you may post a press release at sites such as PRweb.com
Your press release will be a favorable review of the product you are promoting, alongwith your affiliate link
Email marketing
If you own a list of subscribers (people who have opted in to receive email offers from you), you may send them an email telling them about the products you are promoting and include your affiliate links in the email
Once again, don't spam!
Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
You may easily generate incomes with affiliate programs and PPC like Google Adwords
You may also loose a lot of money before making your first sale
So be careful if you do use this way to drive traffic to your sales pages
Learn how it works before!
Learning centers: http://adwords.google.com + DP + PPCdiscussions.com
Make your own tools, write your own texts and try to think like a visitor or a potential buyer, study competitor tactics (use Google!), experiment, upgrade yourself all the time...
It's a matter of creativity, trial and errors, time and dedication
Source: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=902886