Affiliate Marketing Secrets

First, I want to specify that my ultimate goal is not necessarily to become a bartender or mixologist. However, I recently became interested in brewing my own sake or shochu. While I found plenty of guides on the subject, I found myself wanting to know exactly what certain terms meant, how flavors work, etc so that I may eventually perfect my brew.
I am internet-savvy, but I seem to only find either bare-boned guides on brewing, or only some niche sources. I will peruse multiple sources if it comes to it, but I was hoping there was a book or website that sort of laid everything out regarding what I am looking for. Any help and references is much appreciated!

If they were such an expert, wouldn’t they make a bunch of WordPress blogs, get them to rank on Google, and pump the site full of Clickbank affiliate links, amazon links, etc and make commissions???

Only a small percentage of CB affiliates succeed to a significant degree. You need to send lots of prospects to the sales pages, some offers really need a good pre-sell page on your site to warm up the customers first. Expert paid advertiser managers may be able to profit promoting CB with ads, it’s a quick way to make or lose a lot of money overnight, don’t use Google Adwords to promote CB, certain products will get you banned for life. Sales pages might get like 1% to 4% conversion, meaning you would have to pay for 25 to 10 clicks to secure a sale, depending on click costs that could cost $5 to $50 or more to secure one sale.
For most of us, the way to go is to create a quality niche site that in time attracts lots of free traffic from search engines, look at the traffic generating site as your business, and the revenue source you are using at the moment as just one option, it’s good to survey the possible products in the CB marketplace to help choose your specialty, but don’t marry yourself to one product, be prepared to move on if you don’t get sufficient conversions.
I wouldn’t bother trying to spam sites with CB affiliate links, most are on the lookout and will promptly delete them or ban you. Contributing to the conversation on a site is an acceptable way to secure a link to your own site which gains SEO, search traffic benefits, you then place the affiliate links on your own property.

Hi guys,
I discovered internet marketing about 3 months ago and have already got 2 small sites running but still learning the ropes.
I just have a question that I am stuck with, so I was hoping that someone might be able to help.
My recent experience and passion has been with bringing a product to market (which I managed to do successfully) and I’d like to start a blog on that – not claiming to be an expert but sharing my experiences and getting experts in to interview.
The problem is I have had trouble finding good ‘money’ keywords based on Pat Flynn’s Keyword research webinar criteria – the SEO competition looks fairly high and traffic ok-low. Looking at the competition, I am confident I can provide a better authoritative site than most of them but without those money keywords would I just be wasting my time?
I’d love to capitalize on the experience I have had over the last few years and share the lessons I’ve learned with others but obviously do not want to ignore all the advice i’ve been reading on the importance of picking good keywords.
Should I go with my passion/experience and expertise or should I scrap this idea as being too risky (not enough traffic/too much competition) and focus on a different niche all together?
Any advice you could give would be much appreciated – and Thank you!!

15 days and 8 hours daily if you are an expert.

I’m buying a Macbook Pro computer as a gift for someone, and I want to know what the pros and cons are for buying at a Mac Mall store, which I understand is not directly affiliated with Apple, vs. buying the same Macbook Pro at an Apple Store. Which is the better place to buy the computer, bearing in mind that I’m giving it to someone else and they’ll have to deal with any problems the computer develops.
The person I’m getting the computer for is essentially an “applications person,” he’s familiar with using PC’s that run Windows software, he’s a very smart person but he’s not really expert at computers in general and Apple computers in particular. He has an iPad and loves it, and his background is electrical engineering.
So where should I buy the Macbook Pro?