Affiliate marketing information is plentiful online.
The only problem is knowing what's good information and what's not.
You see, there are a lot of scams out there that will promise you big overnight riches, but not do anything other than pad their own bank accounts.
Unfortunately, with a steady flow of new people coming online, these scammers will have unsuspecting people to feed on forever, unless something is done about it.
The thing that you need to know is that there ARE people actually making a living by promoting affiliate programs.
You can get affiliate marketing information by visiting the internet and typing in things like "affiliate marketing + forum" or "affiliate marketing + information" or better yet, "affiliate marketing + ebook".
Without the quotes, of course.
Do you know what you'd like to do already? Do you have any ideas or interests that come to mind? You can always start blogging about your interests.
By doing this you'll gradually build a following of other people that have the same or similar interests as your own.
You'll want to do a bit of research and make sure that there's an interest in your topic and affiliate programs that you can promote, once you start getting traffic.
I do recommend that you stay away from multi-level marketing (mlm).
I'm not trying to make it out to be such a bad thing, however, I know from personal experience that most people don't do well in this business model.
Let me ask you this.
Would you rather be working in an area that genuinely interests you or would you rather sell lotions and potions for someone else? That should answer your question for you.
Now get out there and get all of the affiliate marketing information you can absorb and get to work!