Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Before i start, please give this question some thought to what it is i want (best answer will be rewarded)
I want some good business ideas for making money online with out relying on search engines and affiliates in the future!
I am thinking on a large scale and of course over many years and a lot of time and money spent to get this really big.
What i mean is:
Relying on search engines and affiliate programs at first to grow the business of course. But I don’t want to rely on any affiliate programs like AdSense for my income nor the search engines forever, i want to be able to forget about them and have a online business that stands on its own 2 feet.
Some might say search engines with PPC, they are good, but this is not what i want to start, the competition is at the top.
Having my own PPC ads is something worth having a look at, like Facebook, it is not a search engine, but they do have PPC ads and Facebook don’t need search engines for users or any affiliates for their income.
So any ideas? even if they take a long time to get established, I am not looking to make any quick money or any decent money for few years, I am in it for the long run.
Thanks for reading my long winded question.

For starters, I’m a first year NaNovelist, so I’m not that familiar with it’s inner workings.
The site is completely swamped right now and I can’t even get it to load on my computer, so I’m asking my question here in hopes that someone affiliated with the site will see it. Anyway, I read on a blog somewhere that in the past they gave whoever won NaNoWriMo a free copy of their book. Anyone know if they’re still doing that?
Also, are people participating allowed to post what they’ve written online anywhere? Or is it required that the whole novel be finished before released to the public?
If anyone could answer it would be greatly appreciated, and whoever is taking part this year I wish you all the luck in the world!
Cheers!

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