Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Interested in taking a crack at some affiliate programs. Need to learn as much as possible. Figured I’d start with some old fashion self educating. Any good books you could recomend? Thanks in advance.

I have a few affiliate programs that a few extra bucks from and I would like to know where are some good places to advertise these products/services for free online. (example.. forums, sites etc.)

You will need to find a payment program. Sites like Paydotcom, Clickbank offer payment options for affiliates.
Then you will need material that make your affiliates’ life easy. Things like
1. banners for affiliates to place on their sites or forums
2. forum signatures to entice clickthrough when affiliates post on forums
3. sample articles for affiliates to post on their blogs or submit to sites
4. attention grabbing emails for affiliates to send to their list
5. list of keywords that are relevant to your product so that affiliates can start their search engine marketing campaigns

please! Like for example chitika or adsense need you to have a tax id. I want something without tax id.

I have looked at some of the bigger names and the ones that appear most frequently on Google but they all required a £5000 joining fee. Does anyone know of any others that they can link me to that don’t have a joining fee?

I worked at a regular job from Jan.-May of this year, and earned roughly $4,500 from that job. Starting in April I also started generating income from the web.. ebay, affiliate programs, etc. I have averaged $500/month since June.. leaving me with (so far) $6,500; With a projected income of about $9k-$10k for this year.
When I filed my return last year, I made 15k (before taxes) and got a refund of around 6k (for my EIC).. so I know I won’t be expecting close to that amount this year because I didn’t make as much money, but.. will my self-employed earnings count towards my EIC payout as income? Or will they only count the earnings I made at my regular job?
If I continue to be self-employed and it is my only income for the next year, will I still be eligible for EIC next year?
From what I understand I will file schedule SE with my 1040? Anyone with any advice, I’d greatly appreciate it. This will be my first time ever having to file taxes like this.