If you’re looking for a great way to make money online from home, that doesn’t require any major out-of-pocket spending, affiliate marketing may be your ticket.

Listed below are four reasons why affiliate marketing is the best way to make money online from home:

1) Low or no cost startup

Getting started with affiliate marketing doesn’t require you to shell out a ton of money to get your business off the ground. The necessary tools to acquire are, an autoresponder and a web hosting account. Autoresponder rates can be as low as $17.99 per month and up with web hosting ranging from $5.95 – $24.95 and up depending on your business needs.

2) No need to create a product

Creating a product that satisfies your market and is profitable can be a drudgery, especially if you’ve never done it before. With affiliate marketing, you can easily tap into someone else’s creativity and effort by promoting your product for a commission.

3) No website needed

If you don’t have the technical skills to create a website, many affiliate programs will provide you with one that will allow you to showcase your product.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to using cookie cutter sites. The advantages are ease of use and professional design that will give you an established presence online. The downsides are the lack of uniqueness that is needed to present your business to the market for maximum effectiveness.

However, for the purpose of jumping in and getting your feet wet with affiliate marketing, these sites will allow you to focus on the most important aspect of your business and that is getting customers. Which brings us to…

4) Get Customers (Traffic)

Attracting customers in the offline world can be an extremely expensive deal. Offline advertisers spend loads of cash to showcase their products to customers and build their brand. Online marketing is very different in that customer acquisition costs can be relatively cheap, and in most cases free.

Free traffic generation is free in terms of not having to spend money, but it does involve spending time.