Affiliate Marketing Secrets

From an advertiser /affiliate or publisher stand point..What is the best places with the most ‘best bang for the buck ‘ to submit your banners to for either CPC or CPM traffic?..Listed in the order of; the one with the most options for the expense?, to the one with the most potential/traffic for being a free submission?. Obliviously now, this question is directed at the everyday ‘non-business owner’ who isn’t looking at a website to promote his huge corporation to the homepage of a major website(such as Yahoo,etc) that is going to ask said owner for anyway near 2k to 15k or more a month to advertise on their site?. No,This is not that ballpark at all, or what this is about, this is about the regular everyday on-line advertiser looking for results for a website that will bring in well targeted/good niche traffic, based on this what are people’s personal experiences around this topic, or what do people personally recommend?

If Im starting my own internet marketing business? What steps would you recommend me to do? Would you recommend Affiliate? Publisher? Advertising? Pay Per Click? Im new so PLEASE HELP!
Would you say these will be good steps to take to become successful?

I have an e-commerce site, and i’m looking for an affiliate publisher to help me with conversions.
Is there any site or directory where I can deal with them?
Thanks.

I have a website and I want to make money on it through advertising, but I cannot use Google Adsense because I admittedly was an idiot clicking my own ads and somehow thinking they wouldn’t catch me hehe.
What will be the best Google Adsense alternative to use to make the most money?
Thanks a million