up the slack. Method Two: Affiliate Product Sales If selling your own product is the best way to make money online, then it should come as no surprise that selling someone else's product is the second best way to make money online. In nerdy marketing circles, this practice is known as affiliate sales, and there are tons of average Joes out there who are doing this and making sustainable incomes. As for the people who are a little more clever than the average Joe? They're making a killing. If you want to find success as an affiliate marketer, the "secret" is simply to pimp a product that you not only use, but also genuinely like. The more knowledgeable and transparent you are, the better you'll do; but if you can only be one thing, be genuine. There are countless affiliate programs available online, so which one should you promote? The short answer here is to promote as many programs as it makes sense to promote! For instance, as a Web developer, I routinely deal with a few merchants who also offer affiliate programs: VPS.net -- Virtual private server for larger, more demanding sites that require extra perks like CDN and professional caching (this is how I roll here on Pearsonified) Given the nature of my work, it makes perfect sense for me to promote these programs wherever appropriate. Now, I don't really go nuts with these promos, but then again, I'm by no means a hardcore affiliate marketer. Despite this,