Like many people ,as times get tough, you are looking to find ways to make some extra money to supplement what they earn in your job. I guess that as you are reading this article you are looking at internet marketing and how to make money online.

In this article I am going to look at how to be an affiliate marketer and why you need to have a process to follow as you build your online business and look to make money online.

When I stated out learning how to be an affiliate marketer I jumped all over the place and did not achive my goals and targets. Frustrated by my lack of success I sat down and used my knowledge and experiences of process management and improvement, I am a fully certified Lean and Six Sigma Consultant, taking this learning and knowledge I applied the same methodology to internet marketing.

I soon discovered that as in offline business the key to success and building an efficient business is not rocket science and that is what I want to look at in this article.

When you start out internet marketing and working out how to be an affiliate marketer there is a vast amount of information out there which will, for the most of the time, confuse you and stop you taking action. What you need to do is develop a process that you can follow, repeat and can measure its effectiveness over time.

As an affiliate marketer you need to carry out a number of activities to make money online.

1) Select a niche

2) Do research - keywords, products to promote etc

3) Develop a promotional plan - website, blog etc

4) Marketing plan - one for paid and one for free marketing

5) Take action - schedule activities and follow your plan

6) Measure your success and failures - lean and develop your process

Affiliate marketing is like every other business and therefor as you learn how to be an affiliate marketer and build your internet marketing business you need to develop processes which take the guess work out of being successful. Trust me companies like Toyota, who are very process driven, did not become highly successful by accident.

Developing these processes is not rocket science and by following a simple process and rules you can start creating steps you can follow for every project you undertake. By doing this you will reduce the time it takes to see a profit, eliminate errors and create more successes online.

The most important thing you need to understand as you learn how to be an affiliate marketer is to treat your internet marketing activity as a real business. Real successful businesses develop processes to control their business and so should you.

So what we have looked at in this article about how to be an affiliate marketer - have a process is that to help you to develop successful interment marking projects is to build and follow processes for all the activity you undertake so that you repeat