Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I fairly know affiliate marketing is a good source of income online,I want to make it a secondary source of income but know almost nothing about it. What do I need to be in the affiliate marketing business? What is the requirement? Do I need to start a website before I can go into the business of affiliate marketing? What is the income projections? How many success stories do people have. How much money does it take to start? I need a lot of briefings and clarification.

Currently I do reviews and promote products so is there methods that I can use to get people to clink my link and buy stuff thank you

Is it still possible to make a living with Affiliate Marketing today? I know it’s a lot different before because competition wasn’t that tight but now every niche seems to be saturated. Also, with the recent Google changes, ezinearticles and squidoo don’t rank as well anymore. Any expert advice you can offer me? Please don’t answer if you just intend to promote your training.

I’ve recently registered a sweet domain name that I’m going to use to launch a site that gives readers free coupons, samples, etc.
The last thing I want to do with this site though is be forced to fill it full of affiliate marketing and things like ‘Get a FREE Apple iPhone’
I’ve taken a look at a number of similar sites and my question to the community is: where do these sites find their content? They seem to have legit deals, offers, giveaways, coupons etc from reputable businesses. Is there a directory where companies go to list all of these deals and offers?
As I mentioned, I’m not interested in turning this new site into a SPAM-ATHON so if anyone out there knows if there is a place(s) where a publisher can find these types of offers and then post them to their site, i’d be forever grateful.
(Note: I know there are a number of these sites around already but I’m having a crack anyway :P)
I’m really looking forward to some of your insights 🙂
Thanks!

I want to sell an e-book, I wonder which affiliate program would give me the highest return. What about Clickbank?

Most affiliate and CPA networks are legit in that they do pay if you’ve earned money. And most will safeguard your SSN, just like any other employer. But there are a few that will look OK, will pay its affiliates, but will also sell SSN’s to criminals on the side.
SO, making money online is great. THERE IS NO GRIND! NO COMMUTE! NO BOSS! NO CUBICLE! Plus people make money online all the time.
So if one tries to do that, how can he protect himself from SSN/credit fraud?
P.S. DON’T say “get a real job”, because working online is in many respects BETTER than a real job, if you know what you’re doing.