Most people when they go in to business for themselves do it as an affiliate. There are many different affiliate programs online and if this is something you are interested in, you need to choose what companies you would like to sell for.

Once you do decide what company you would like to sell for, you need to decide how you will promote your product that you are selling. Most affiliates have a webpage that they use to put the products on to that they are selling.

Others choose just to promote the webpage that the product is on and sharing the hoplink in their advertisements. A hoplink is a code that the owner of the affiliate program puts on the individual items that they are selling. In the hoplink, there is a code for what the product is and your affiliate id as well.

A few ways you can promote the items you are selling and do it without a webpage of your own, is to advertise. There are a number of ways you can do this. You can place classified ads on sites such as craigslist, backpages, your local newspaper, put bumper stickers on your car, pass out flyers, just to name a few.

Make sure that however you do advertise that it is legal and never scam or spam anyone.

A scam is where you sell items but in order to sell them you tell lies about them. Always tell the truth.

A spam is where you promote your items by such means such as sending emails to people who have not asked to learn about your product. This is illegal.

A popular way to advertise is to place your item for sale on online auctions. There are many online auctions and a few that are popular are ebay, oodle, quickbids to name a few.

The way you sell an item online is that you first need to have a product to sell. You can sell items you have in your home that you do not want to own anymore, or you can go around to rummage sales and buy items you want to sell, or you can go to various stores such as thrift stores and buy items to sell.

Believe it or not, you can also sell items that you are promoting from the affiliate program you are involved in.

You need to decide what online auction you will sell through. Some require you to have a pay pal account to receive your payments, others do not.

Once you have signed up make sure you read the rules.

Place the item or items you wish to sell and when someone sees that item and wishes to buy it, they will bid on it. The auction runs for a determined length of time. After it is done, the highest bidder gets to own the item.

You can name the price you want the bidding to start at. Always make sure you start at a price not lower than the price that the affiliate program is selling it for, otherwise you will have to pay the difference.

A few good items you can promote on an online auction are items for children such as magic trick books, Items for computer professionals such as keeping their computer running excellent. There are a lot of items you can sell on an online auction, but if you do not have a product to sell, information is always a good seller.