So what is affiliate marketing anyway?Affiliate marketing is about selling other peoples products and earning a commission of each sale. You basically send prospect to an offer and if they buy you get a cut of the price. This means you have to send targeted traffic (get people to see the offer, who is actually interested in the offer) to the product that you are promoting.There is a ton of different ways to do affiliate marketing. I have created this free affiliate marketing guide for you so you can get started today!The two main ways to do affiliate marketingFirst Free Affiliate Marketing Tip – Build a list: The experts say, the “money is in the list”. There are a statistical data that shows that you can expect to earn $1 per subscriber. But, this is not the whole truth. There are people with a list of 2000, who don’t make any money or just very little. And there are people with a very small list size that make a ton of cash. So what is the difference?The difference is relationship and list age. You need a fresh list of people and you need to build trust with the people in it. So how do you do that? Well, you do that by providing value, and it has to be value that your list wants. Now here is the tricky part. How do you know what your list wants and how do you provide value? Hmm though one!I would suggest you start by providing value and then attract the right kind of people. So we are almost back where we started. Attracting targeted people to an offer, but this time you are giving value away for free. That helps in the attraction department.So what kind of value should you provide? Well, first you have to choose a niche. A niche is a small area derived from a bigger area of interest. A area of interest could be golf and a niche could be golfing for left-handed golfers. Off course golf is also a niche, but the more specific you get, the more can you be sure you can provide the value your prospects are looking for.After you have chosen a niche, you need to investigate what people in this niche are looking for. You can search Google, forums, articles, YouTube or the affiliate market place. Another way is using the Google keyword tool, to see what words your prospects are searching for.And if you are wondering what you can offer your subscribers for free. You can offer them free reports, free audios, free videos. Go to YouTube and there you can find a ton of videos in any market you can think of. Get the embed code and paste the video code in your blog or website and within a second you have a free video for your subscribers. Once you get an idea of the needs and wants in your niche you create information that will provide value by solving the problems your target group are struggling with.How can you create information? Well, you can write an eBook, create an audio course or make a video using a webcam or screen capture software. Now all you have to do is give this information away in exchange for the prospects email. You can use forums, giveaway events, articles or YouTube to distribute your information.Second Free Affiliate Marketing tip – Build a blog: Another way of building trust is by blogging. Once again you use your blog to provide value. You can even put an opt-in form on your blog and capture emails in exchange for free information. Your blog posts serve two purposes. First they should drive targeted traffic by being search engine optimized (meaning your post will appear high in the Google when people search for the information you provide. Second your posts should provide real value. And again here you need to find and research a niche in order to attract the right people to your blog.It is a fact that people buy from people they trust. Use your blog to brand yourself as a person who provide value, someone who really cares. Then there is no need to sell.Your blog can be use as a review platform for the affiliate products you endorse. Make sure to buy the product yourself first an give an honest review. Also point out what the product is missing and try to provide the missing information.So, now all you have to do is find a niche, research it, create value and find affiliate products to promote (I recommend ClickBank they have great customer service). This all sounds very easy to do but fact is many people fail in doing all this. If you are looking for a guide to take you by the hand and show you everything using text as well as video I suggest you take a look at the resource box below.So this was the end of this free affiliate marketing guide, hope you found what you where looking for.