Before actually committing some money into this

i think you have got the main idea here. What you want to be essentially doing is building a list of targeted leads for your niche. And yes you should build a site that is a blog which you will build a relationship with your prospects. On that blog you MUST have an opt in form with a free offer so they join your email list. Now you can market to them forever!

Hope that helps.

No, you're confusing two different business models, here. With "affiliate marketing", you get paid only when people buy, not when they click. (But it doesn't really work that way, very much: the people who click on links on your site and actually buy things are people with whom you're also in touch by email, because they subscribed to the list that you need to build, exactly as Naazim explains above .)

Being paid something (usually pennies) when people click on an ad on your site is the "AdSense model". Very different. If you try that, you need a different sort of website which encourages people to click and leave. For almost any other payment model, you naturally want your traffic to stay, not to leave. So this "AdSense model" conflicts with anything else, in site-design (and in other) terms.

You'd need a niche site, for that ... the idea is that you have a traffic-generation plan to attract (non-search-engine) traffic to a "niche site" from which you collect the visitors' email addresses and then promote ClickBank products to them mostly by email (you can have them on your site, too, but that makes you look "just like another marketer" and may not help you to sell them). Then you provide valuable content about the niche by email, and earn your subscribers' trust and respect so that when you later recommend a ClickBank product or two, some people will rely on your recommendation and buy them. When they buy them by arriving at the sales page after clicking your affiliate-link, you earn a commission. Sometimes a big commission.

This one post gives an overview of it: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

And this post gives an overview of what you'd need to learn to do for the "email marketing" part (and you wouldn't be selling many affiliate products without the email marketing part): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

If you want.

Rather you than I.

I think you're much better off being an affiliate. The average "beginning marketer" has a far higher chance that way. Here are just ten of my reasons for saying this.

That very rarely happens.

If they click a link in an email you've sent them, it happens all the time, and you typically get something between about €7 and €11 out of that €15 if it was via ClickBank. More interestingly, some ClickBank products cost $97 and you get up to $67 commission when you sell those (but - again - don't expect to sell them just by visitors clicking on a link on your website: that isn't how it works).

You don't earn that way unless you're using "AdSense" or an equivalent. (Which I wouldn't bother with, myself. Just my perspective).

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I believe the best way would be to start building your own product, if you have a particular interest and you are better at something. But this would be a long term investment, in yourself and in your business.You took the first step and started asking around. This is good.
As you may know, a person that asks a question is considered a newbie for 10 minutes, but if you never ask, you will be a newbie forever.

You should sit and do some brainstorming. What makes you happy? Could it make others happy 2? Can you help people in a particular niche and provide with the answers they seek? Are you better at sending traffic? What is your strong point here in internet?

Darius Vaduva

Your basic ideas are good. Amazon is a great affiliate program . . . I make money every month from them on sites I set up years ago (with occasional updating). With Amazon, if someone clicks on an affiliate link of yours (you can create them in Amazon) you get a percentage if they buy, from 4% to about 8%.

Amazon can work really well with doing honest product reports . . . summarize what real customers have said about the products. Then also add other pages such as how to choose the best product, and what products you need for a particular hobby or task etc.

You can combine all your ideas . . . use Amazon AND ClickBank, AND your own products, and see which works best for you at this stage. Selling your own products is typically more challenging than selling affiliate products, one reason being that a company like Amazon has a LOT of experience and are VERY good at selling and have a great reputation etc. all of which make people more likely to buy.

So, yes, choose a niche with a decent range of products (products more than $100, products with lots of customer reviews on Amazon, products which are not available in a local WalMart) get your domain and hosting, write the best content you can, do SEO (both on-page and off-page) and you will make some money, then keep learning and improving!

Chris