Clickbank

The clue was in the last of his three sentences, where he referred to "doing a search on the things I'd want to promote".

There are loads and loads of them.

Have a look at the threads with titles like "ClickBank alternatives" and so on. But be aware, as a potential affiliate, that none of them has exactly the same system as ClickBank.

With some of those "networks", one is dependent on the vendor for payment, rather than on the network (e.g. "PayDotCom", from which serious, pro-affiliates tend to keep well away, for that reason). With others, there's sometimes a questionable history and some financial/payment questions to answer (e.g. "Clicksure", who are based in China though they sometimes deny it, and whose own PayPal account has been limited!!). With several, one is entirely dependent on PayPal for all transactions (both customer transactions and collecting your money from the company), which some people see as a disadvantage (it would be off-putting for me, certainly). So don't be imagining that "they're all more or less the same" - they're far from it. ClickBank has been established for longer than Google, and has paid over $2.5 Billion to its vendors/affiliates during that time. It won't be going anywhere just yet.

Maybe. If you've already decided this even before starting. (Perhaps rightly, then). ClickBank was about all I did, for about the first 3 years of my business. I have added some other stuff since then, but CB still accounts for over 75% of my income.

Ah, you want to be a vendor, really? So the affiliate marketing is going to be a sideline? Fair enough ... and good luck and good wishes.

Not me ... for now, at least, I have what feel like ten good reasons for preferring to be an affiliate.

You have to study this matter and learn how to find the best affiliate products. Read many posts related to affiliate marketing.

First of all try to sell products similar to the product you want to create so that you may build your email list and have ready buyers for your product when you will launch it. You will also be more experienced if you will learn how to sell affiliate products before creating your own.

You should pay 75% to your affiliates to make them really care about promoting your product.

About finding a virtual assistant, be careful with the people you trust.

Don't you worry too much about providing customer service; many successful affiliates have way more than 10 years "experince". And of course if your product turns out to be a flop, Clickbank will take good care of our customers with its 60 day money-back guarantee. That's just one more good reason for being an affiliate.