Once you've written your E-Book, got your Website up and integrated your shopping cart, you can sit back and start waiting for the money to come rolling in, right?

WRONG!

These days it's getting harder than ever before to be able to get people to notice you - and just because "you build it" doesn't mean they're going to come.

When you're just getting starting in Affiliate Marketing, one of the most important things you need to learn about is traffic - specifically what it is and how to get it.

Why?

Because although it's become somewhat of a cliche these days, the truth is, "the money is in the list" - but that means YOUR list, not the list of the people whose products you're selling - at least not if you want to be successful.

If you're new to affiliate marketing, there are a few things that you need to know about marketing your affiliate products - because if you get these wrong, chances are, you're never going to make more than a few sales.

Affiliate Marketing Mistake #1: Choosing the Wrong Product.

This is a biggie, and probably one of the biggest mistakes that new affiliate marketers make.

Before we get into the meat and potatoes of how you can use viral marketing to help get a buzz going about your small business, let's start with a definition of exactly what "viral marketing" means.

According to the Wikipedia, "Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses.