There are many home based business opportunities available on the internet. Many of these courses start out by teaching you how to develop your online business through what is called affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a practice used by many internet marketers to make money online. What affiliate marketing consists of is promoting other peoples products and services for a commission.It is one of the most efficient ways to make money online with your home based business. It is becoming more popular due to this reason. Although it is a popular marketing strategy, many people have trouble succeeding when they’re building their online business. This is mainly caused by not having the necessary education within affiliate marketing in order to succeed.There are many home based business programs out there that claim to teach you how to create multiple streams of income through affiliate marketing, but many are just scams and don’t offer quality training to be a successful affiliate marketer.Another reason people fail and this one doesn’t just go with affiliate marketing but for all marketing strategies taught to build an online business and the reason is that people fail to take action. If you want to succeed in something you will need to take action. You can read all you want about building your home based business but without taking action, you will not go anywhere as an affiliate/internet marketer.Do not be afraid of failure. It will happen. Failure is part of life. Many people look at failure as being something negative. This is the wrong way to look at it. There are many people afraid of failing and this is the reason why many people don’t take action and all they do is read until they just get overwhelmed  with too much information. This will result in not getting anywhere with your home based business. A good way to look at failure is that once you try something and it doesn’t work, then you just succeeded that what you just did doesn’t work. In other words, when you fail at something, you also succeed.Always think positive. Easier said than done I know but if you get frustrated with something, take a break or move on to something else. There is no point in trying to move forward in a negative attitude because it will just show up in your work. Your work will be affected if you’re thinking negative. So breaks are good.These are tips not only to build your home based business with affiliate marketing but in anything you do.