Affiliate Marketing Secrets

im kinda new to affiliate marketing and i want to know if i need my own website to make money on clickbank or can i do without one???whats the minimum i have to invest in the advertising??? is there anyone in the central valley, California that wud be willing to help me out in person???
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no dumb answers like ‘its a scam’, ‘no one makes money of that’, ‘its a waste of time’…….etc……im serius about this