Affiliate Marketing techniques

There are many ways to market the products you wish to promote. The most widely known is through Google Adwords. They will help you with keywords, set up a budget of your choice, and you can choose what days during the week you want your ads to run. An alternative to PPC is through a Search engine such as ExactSeek. Through their Featured Listings you can run a campaign at a set price for a number of listings and not have to worry how many clicks you get. They will also help you select keywords.
But I believe the best way to promote products is to eventually get your own website. A blog is a great way to start because you can start with some content and add new posts as you go. Blogger is probably the best place to start if you are new to this. They have tutorials to help you start. It's also FREE! To join Blogger you'll have get a gmail account, also free! The best thing about a gmail account is you can get many other google accounts free. These accounts will help you with promoting your blog on the internet along with the ads you've posted on them. They have webmaster tools to make your site SEO acceptable.
Another alternative whether you want to promote your blog or your ads is to write an article in Ezine or Go Articles. Also completely free! Search engines such as Google will index your sites or ads quicker and give you higher rankings on their pages. You just need to update them at least on a weekly basis. The more you update your articles and bring attention to yourself the more attention you will get. Just don't get frustrated and give up. We all get frustrated now and then, the rewards will come to you eventually and then the sky is the limit if that's what you choose.
Another way to promote your products is with Social Media. Twitter and Facebook are the big ones. After you've written a post to your blog or an article you can talk about it at these places. And once again, to join them is Free! Do you love it! The more followers you have, the more exposure you have. Good luck on your venture!