Link: http://blog.webgemnet.com/blog1.php/Online-Marketing/

If you are considering the prospect of becoming involved in Affiliate Marketing on the Internet then I seriously suggest you approach with extreme caution. You will be bombarded from all angles with various software which will offer promises of untold fortune within a matter of hours, days, weeks, months and years. Should you purchase these software tools and begin to explore, then you will be offered more and more and more so that at the start of your venture you are faced with mountains of information to plough through when at the end of the day all you wanted to do was make some money, pay off your debts and live a comfortable life. Also, beware, when you give your e-mail on sign-up the likelihood is that it will be linked to other companies / individual's lists who will begin to send you their offers. Again, approach with caution. If it sounds too good to be true then it generally is.
When you read through the offers you will begin to see patterns emerging in price, pitch and advert styles. They will all value their packages between $4000 and $12000 yet be willing to sell for a very common $97. How bizarre !!
You will need to be computer literate to a level higher than you believe you are even though they say that you "don't need experience." You will need a "squeeze" page to drive your customers to and set up "autoresponder" e-mail campaigns to continually capture data so that you can send them more offers. You will set up campaigns in Google Adwords to aid the traffic to visit your squeeze page which if you are not careful will cost you more money than you ever imagined. You will not be able to compete with the large companies with "endless" budgets just to get an advert viewed, so beware before you choose this path.

Dennis Jaconi
webGem Network