Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I want to start an affiliate online marketing business but i dont know how it works!
Can i hire a freelance person to help me out and how would this person help me, it sounds confusing because i have no idea how affiliate marketing works!
Do i need to have a website already?
I have a cooking blog.
Thanks

I am looking to apply for an ABN because it is necessary to have one to receive payments from various affiliate marketing websites.
I am not sure what to put this business under. It asks if I have an enterprise established in Australia.
What is the deal? Does a website count as an enterprise?
There are supposed penalties to giving incorrect information in this form so I want to get it right. At the same time this is made as confusing as possible so it isn’t really fair that penalties apply.

I want to start a new Website based on E-commerce Platform with Digital product Download .There will be 3 parties like – Affiliate, Marchant/Vendor, Admin I need a name . Some good organization name is clickbank.com , Marketbay.com, Ebay.com , Amazon.com etc .
So i need a name please help me and give your idea .

We don’t consider ourselves a for-profit business, we’re just a couple of website operators trying to spread a positive message in the music/entertainment industry. We also share media from user submissions ans drive traffic to affiliated websites by live streaming events. Was wondering how to incorporate as we do need to take on investments and sales from ad space, and pay appropriate taxes when it is due. We also distribute promotional materials like t-shirts at our own expense, and want to put those funds into a business checking account.

I am going to launch a new website about affiliate marketing, suggest me for renowned PR writing company.

Do you mean a website to market affiliate products or market your own products with an affiliate program.
If its the former using the WordPress script on a self-hosted web is the easiest to use. If its the latter their are a lot of scripts for affiliate management from say US$40.00 to $,000s – just google for them.