Looking For Advice

Hello fellow warriors, I am a young student who is looking to get into IM.
I have somewhat of an idea as to what I would like to do but I would love some advice and I also have a few questions.

My targeted niche for all of my ideas is the MMO niche.

My first idea was to have a basic landing page with an opt in to create a list, which I would then email free e books before beginning to send affiliate links.

My second idea was to create a blog about being a young Australia entrepreneur, which I would make posts about my progress. I would also have some sort of opt in on the blog to create a very similar subscription system as in my first idea.

My last idea was somewhat of a hybrid of my first two, but I’m not sure how I could incorporate the two together, maybe have them opt in to get access to the blog?
Advice on those three ideas would be great, and any further suggestions are definitely welcome!

As for traffic, I would like to start with YouTube videos and maybe videos on other video sharing sites. The video will be pretty much just a pitch to go to my site. I then think the next move would be solo ads? Is that a good next move? After I see some free traffic I would like to get into paid traffic so I can expand.

As for affiliate programs, would I be better off with only one, such as clickbank? Or maybe multiple, Jvzoo + Clickbank?

For hosting the site I will most likely go with HostGator, as for registering a domain I’m a bit unsure of the process and is where I definitely need some advice. I plan to use aweber for the autoresponder and will aim to make my website/blog with wordpress as is it seems easier for beginners.

So what do you guys think? Is there anything in particular you think I’d struggle with? Like is using aweber hard to learn or is wordpress harder to use than I expect?

I know this is a large post so thankyou to anyone who does take the time to read it.