Your affiliate marketing business is just that ... a business. To succeed, you need to treat your business like a business and focus on growth. Your affiliate links are your business, you are the owner of a marketing company and is an asset that can become increasingly active. Here are three strategies to build your marketing business.

1. Get your own website and domain name.

Looks cheap and marks as a "rookie" before sending a long affiliate link in your ads. With domain names as cheap as you can now buy your own domain name. You can then either send your URL to your affiliate link or you put up with some free hosting and establish more of a presence on the web. Your best bet is to write a complete description of the benefits of your affiliate program and link to your program via an HTML link that is part of the description.

2. Build your own list.

Cease dependence on one-shot ads to make money. Real companies have regular customers that are grown to higher profits. You must do the same. Make a commitment to establish relationships with customers and especially with visitors to your site. Create an email list to keep in touch. Send tips or articles periodically and focus on helping their clients. Only promote your affiliate links in a discreet, do not make your emails one big ad.

One of the best ways to generate traffic to your list is to write a brief report that describes the benefits of your affiliate program. Reports available only by email. When someone sends for your report, add to the list and can continue to communicate with them.

3. Generating traffic to your site and list.

This is where you really make your affiliate links your own business. By having your own website and building your own list you are building your own business and brand, not just marketing someone else. In this way, you can put your own customers over and over again. Do not overlook this point: When your ad redirects a customer to your affiliate, which has lost that person as your own client, as he lost the ability to communicate with them on a repeat basis. By directing customers to their own site and list, build a relationship with you.

There are many ways to generate traffic: writing articles, posting in forums, lists of security in the market, online advertising, etc. My advice is to choose a method of building traffic, work on it for a while, and master it before moving on to something else. If you focus on online advertising, write and rewrite your ads until you determine how to get the best response. If the market for security lists, list of 50, and send your ad to 10 each day. Keep testing to make sure your safelists are responsive.

These three strategies will help you build and grow your affiliate marketing business.