How are you doing??? ... Really

Main part your missing is " Action "

It's very easy to get bogged down with trying to learn all the ins and outs of everything area of business/marketing but a lot of it is just learned from taking action.

My first website was bloody horrible to look at. It was back when blogs were not big, most used a editor and a template. My template was illuminous Green it was nasty and I have to say Im still suprised to this that people didnt immediately click away. Yet I developed that 1 site up to making between $3,000 to $6,000 in the credit industry with affiliate marketing using a combination of search engine traffic and pay per click and that was when social marketing like facebook, twitter, lenses and such were not around.

Is that the norm run of things with every affiliate program that I promote? nope

Some affiliate programs I have tested and made nothing, others a few hundred and others i have grown them into the thousands mark.

Do they stay that way? Nope, the internet is one hell of a fast autobahn, things are changing, businesses changes and what worked last year might not work this year.

So I work in a number of niches that way Im always one step ahead of the changes that come at me.

Now that 1st website I created I wish I still had it to show people as it was just a simple, yet nasty looking site but it converted like mad and ranked well in the search engines.

It initially started out at around 20 pages and I just kept adding to it each day, checking where people were coming in from, catering to them specifically based on their searches and adding more product and pages.

My first time using ppc I blew $50 within a matter of hours it was horrific I learned bloody fast what to do and what not to do and back then there was little to no product telling you how to make a killing with ppc. I learned by chatting daily on the phone with staff at Overture ( now yahoo search marketing ).

I chatted to the affiliate company weekly on the phone and learnt a lot about the credit industry. This info was useful in making my site more better quality and focused on the market.

So my advice is...get motoring on starting you can adjust along the way.

Now days I usually enter into 3 niches at once, this way I can find the golden egg in among them and develop it further from there.

Pin down the niches after your research into which one is most likely to be profitable you have been looking to, and out of 3 select 1 of them and get building the site as until you do that.. well you know

Dude this is what I do....
1. I have signed up with a company ( years ago)
2. By their stuff each month ( because I actually like it)
3. If you don't like the product - get the F out of it -- quickly
4. get leads ( too many ways to list here) -> yes I buy them sometimes
5. have a good headset phone
6. Tell wife I'm calling leads ---> So Go Away Please
7. call people and get them to listen in on a webinar ( on how the business works) -> should be free BTW
8. Keep records of calls and other pertinent info
9. enroll people who are interested
10. make override income on what they buy
11. get a check every month
12. show people how to do the same thing ( most difficult)
13. make website in the meantime to gather own leads and
keep learning
14. Yes Old school marketing will never die out, relationships depend on it
and it's easier than learning online marketing

You'll never get far with a ridiculous avatar like that.