Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Basically I’ve signed up for amazon affiliates program about 4 days now and I’ve got 112 clicks from my web to the amazon link but people haven’t bought anything yet does that mean I won’t get paid at the end of the month or the end of next month ? Do I have to shift some items first? Cos my GDP still says 0 and that means the amount of money I’ve made so please help me out

I want to sell amazon products for my business but i want to know if I’m allowed to do this living in NC

I have made a blog and placed amazon affiliates links on it.
I am telling everyone i know to purchase things from amazon through my blog but so far i haven’t been able to make even a single sale.
I would like to here that if u are successful in making money from amazon affiliates whats the best strategy that works quickest and has maximum effect.

I’m a SAH mom, and I LOVE listening to podcasts while I clean, do laundry, garden, etc.
However, the podcasts that I listen to (Free Talk Live, Rachel Maddow and Best of the Left) don’t accurately reflect my conservative/libertarian values…. Although Free Talk Live is pretty close.
Why aren’t there any comparable Republican podcasts? I COULD listen on the radio, but the commercials are forever long, and I don’t really CARE about the traffic, and I don’t want to pay $20 a month to each of the talk show hosts. I like FTL and BOL’s model, you pay if you want to, and they’re also Amazon affiliates, and it works for them.
Just curious, if I recorded the talk shows and cut and pieced together parts of them like Jay from Best of the Left does, and then distributed them as podcasts online, would that be illegal? If so, how does he do that legally?
Thanks!

When I sell through Amazon affiliates, who pays for my 5% commission? Is it Amazon? Or is it the Seller?