New Warrior, new to IM.. A few questions

Over the past 12 months I've been looking to get into IM, mainly getting super excited about a particular idea and then discarding it once I realize it wouldn't work. Here's what I've tried and here's what I'm looking to.

I started a website last summer for business students who are trying to decide on business school or career choices. I paid for hosting, made the first page, then walked away (I'm a grad student and things got busy). My main revenue driver was going to be affiliate links to business and career books.

Next I tried article marketing. I read up on Yoga and wrote a how to article on ezine articles and another article database and got denied because of the affiliate link at the bottom and they said it wasn't original content.

Here's my plan.. and keep in my mind I DON'T know what I'm doing. I'd like to find out that my plan is stupid on this forum first, than waste a ton of time and be back at the same position.

I'm going to write my own e-book on a topic that I haven't found much on. I checked clickbank and they have NOTHING of the sort, even though it is a relatively large market. Google adsense tools also shows that it is a promising venture.

Step 1: Read several books on the subject, although I already have a good bit of knowledge and first-hand experience
Step 2: Outline, write, create videos to be used in the e-book as well as for advertising (unfortunately I found out extranormal can't be used commercially)
Step 3:Create sales page
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Profit

Questions: If I just create the sales page, send the e-book off to clickbank, and stand back and watch.. nothing is going to happen, correct?

What else do I need to do? Should I be working on building my own website centered around the website to drive traffic? It seems like a lot of clickbank products ONLY have the sales page, and just has affiliate marketers directing them there through articles and other websites.

I've been reading hours and hours on the forum and other websites and It's a huge learning curve but I really want to start getting this thing going.

I'm imagining ~100 pages with 10 or so videos showing exactly "how-to" do something. There's a big gap at least from a student's perspective between material on the importance of the topic, and actually HOW to do the topic.

I hope this is well received and I get some valuable advice. Everyone on here that I've read seems to be very helpful and encouraging.