Just spent the last 2.5 hours browsing through the WickedFire affiliate marketing forum looking for a hint on where I should start.

Here’s what I learned:

1. I have to pick a campaign from Neverblue of my choosing.
2. Setup a website to up-sell the campaign/product/service. This website is usually called a landing page.
3. Ensure that the landing page looks legitimate.
4. Setup an ad promoting my website’s product through Google (Adwords). 7search, or Yahoo (YPN).
5. Watch the cash roll in.

Hmm, this seems too simple? There is definitely a catch to this, but I am not sure what that is yet. Man, I am in dire need of an “Affiliate Marketing for Dummies” book that will take me through the process step by step and show me how to make that first dollar. Something seems missing before step 4 above.

Goals for tomorrow:

1. Buy a domain name to use as landing page. I am going to pick something generic like http://mybizness.com so that it is agnostic.
2. Setup a path for my campaigns. I will use sub-paths instead of subdomains because it looks better?.
3. Leave the rest for tomorrow (steps 2-5 above). The next step will probably require some website programming knowledge. Time to brush up on those skills.