Golden Goose Marketing

If you’ve ever seen those $2000 online marketing courses from the gurus, you’ve probably wondered if there is a way to learn affiliate marketing for free.  Luckily, there is.  It’s entirely possible to learn affiliate marketing without spending a dime of your hard-earned money.  You will, however, need a bit of spare time.

• Get the free guides. Plenty of gurus have free guides that they give out as a teaser to entice you to join their mailing lists.  Just use a junk email address and enjoy.
• Just try it.  Although this isn’t recommended for paid traffic sources, there are plenty of ways you can get web traffic without spending money on advertising.  Make Squidoo lenses, write articles for Associated Content, or learn about SEO and build a site with a simple pagemaker.  You have nothing to lose but a few of your free evenings.
• Get a job in online marketing. Companies can’t seem to find enough employees to fill their online marketing departments.  It’s a new field and you don’t need a lot of experience to progress quickly.  The best part is that you get to learn on someone else’s dime.
• Spy on competitors or sites that interest you.  Look at what they’re doing to drive traffic and then figure out how to apply similar tactics to your own sites.
• Go to the library.  There are plenty of books on web marketing.  If your library doesn’t have what you’re looking for, they can probably borrow it through an inter-library loan.

Any other ideas for getting free online marketing education?  Feel free to share!