How to pick good affiliate programs

If you just started or even already for a while searching opportunities about how to make money online, you must have been well aware that most of these "opportunities" are always requiring some starting capital to start, and most of them are affiliate programs. I don't think if there is any affiliate business that you start for free, yes you can join them for free and start promoting them for free, but in order to promote them you still need some capital to advertise them, unless you already have good networking to start with. But I will not discuss about that, lets assume that you are well understand that to join affiliate programs will require some money.

There are many types of affiliate marketing programs. The examples are free building website affiliate program, ebook selling program, or comprehensive affiliate training program, and many more.

Many blogs has discussed how to pick good program and to avoid being scammed. One of really famous tips is to not join something that offers you high very high ROI (Return of Interest) because most likely it will be scam. Programs like HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) should be avoided at all cost if you are new and can't take risks. Others say don't believe authority sites because actually they are just a tool used by affiliate programs.

But aside of that, for me myself, I think it is not about the program, I think it's more to who the affiliate that brought you the program. Many affiliates advertise their programs without good follow up, they just throw their referrer links and let their downlines work their own. Although good affiliate programs usually provide all  what needed to understand about how they operate, nothing beats for getting good upline/sponsor that you can ask and discuss with. So choose wisely about the program you want to join, check your referrer, if they don't respond or respond poorly then better to find other programs, I assure you there are plenty affiliate programs out there that waiting for you to join. I think that will increase your change to get better start and success in that program, there will be other factors, yes, but at least you will minimize the failure chances..