Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Anyone run a online store before? Any thoughts on that type of lifestyle?
I feel like it can be cool. Its a little different than some other things but it seems to offer flexibility also ability to take weekends off for a few days. Can also be selling stuff people like hopefully whethet food or electronics etc..
So many people online too with the right niche there is quite some possibilities.
Thanks

So this is what I want to do although, I am in need of a little guidance; I want to start an adult toy webstore. I am not sure how to do it though, I dont know who is reputable and isn’tt. I have done some research recently that leads me nowhere. I am somewhat in understanding of “Affiliate Marketting”, however, I do not blog or anything like that. I do admin at a huge website voluntarily that site has 5.6k members.
A while back I was looking into this and came across companies that provided templates to create websites and allowed me to choose from inventory but to be honest I can’t recall how I got there. Now all I keep coming across is affiliate marketing which is ok, but I don’t blog so that will cause me to fail. I may advertise somethings in the site I admin at but I don’t feel that is the key. I know this is a ridiculously difficult market to target since there is a lot of competion, however, because I admin at a huge page I am sure that there will be some sales coming from there and then the rest from search engines …
I need guidance into picking my right course of action? I want to target mainly men, women and couples.
I don’t mind finding wholesales setting an e-commerce store, but its going to be annoying to package things and sending.
Or else if I can affiliate myself to a store and warehouse that allows me to do drop shipping? I can code and make my own website but I would prefer a template because I don’t like making websites, its too time consuming and annoying.
Can anyone with experience point me out in the right direction, give me advice? BTW I am not sure if I posted this in the right section

Hi everyone!
..I really need your help..
I need to start and maintain a website-webstore based on an ARTIST’s writings to sell his art. I have NEVER made a website before and this needs to be very professional. I am willing to pay a maximum of $40/month. It must have card-payment/Paypal CHECKOUT, a collection of BLOGS, ability to hold multiple PHOTOS per product, a very visual INTRO PAGE with multi-language options, preferably a modifiable BACKGROUND image, AFFILIATE capabilities, and it would be ideal if I could start me off with a TEMPLATE which allows flexible MODIFICATION options.
It would be great if you could provide a brief mention of your suggested sites/WEBHOSTS etc. with their advantages and disadvantages also..
Please please please help !
Thank you sooooooo0 much!!!

i am planning on opening a webstore for a niche market, but i have no idea how to do market research to know what to sell.