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This forum is great for noobs. The info contained here will get you started on the right foot. Then once you're making money you can invest in some personal mentoring from a successful person which is my all time favorite way to learn.

Hope it helps!

Bill

Creating a website, driving traffic... those things are more technical and they're very important. If you want success in making money however, you need to balance two big things:

Make sure your niche is profitable

vs.

Talking about something you know (or better yet, love)

Now I've built sites around both, but in my opinion, the first one is much more important. Why? Because you can always LEARN about a profitable niche. And with some semi-decent writing skills, you can eventually turn that into some serious money.

As an example, you could absolutely love glassblowing. With your in-depth knowledge of the hobby, you could create a whole site about glassblowing, pepper it with AdSense, and sprinkle in some Amazon book links in the hopes of making some money.

That site would reach the 0.0028% of the population who actually does glassblowing. And yes, I'm making that figure up.

On the flip side, you could create a website about "how to get rock-hard abs". Even if you don't have rock-hard abs you can certain open a google window and find out how to get them. You can check clickbank for the best products on rock-hard abs, and see what people are saying about them. And from there, you could create a whole website around the right exercises, proper diet, etc... to help people get those rock hard abs that, up until a week ago, you knew absolutely nothing about.

That website would reach 5% of the population looking for a flatter tummy. And although your competition would be much greater as opposed to the glassblowing website, the return on investment of time would be equally so. Done correctly, money would roll in much faster than the trickle of nickles you'd get from the glassblowing site.

My point? Not everything can be profitable. No, scratch that. Everything can be profitable, but not when compared to the TIME you spend on it.

When you get good at affiliate marketing, you'll find yourself looking at your time in ways you never did before. A lot of people here will agree with that statement. It's weird at first, but you'll start to measure your hours in dollars, and you'll start to realize when you're making profitable headway or just spinning your wheels on something.

Best of luck to you!