The affiliate program you choose will also handle all the money, shipping and correspondence with your customers. All you need to do is to generate the traffic to your new website in order to make the sale. Often times the affiliate program you join will offer you free websites and that is great, but you will never generate enough free traffic to these affiliate sites to succeed without having your own website. Why you ask? For o�ne, the search engines don�t list affiliate sites and you definitely want to get listed in the search engines, this will be your biggest free traffic source.