Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I fairly know affiliate marketing is a good source of income online,I want to make it a secondary source of income but know almost nothing about it. What do I need to be in the affiliate marketing business? What is the requirement? Do I need to start a website before I can go into the business of affiliate marketing? What is the income projections? How many success stories do people have. How much money does it take to start? I need a lot of briefings and clarification.

I live in Philadelphia, PA and I’m trying to apply for state-affiliated colleges with this type of program and the only thing I could find was ‘graphic design’ and ‘computer science’.
I want to learn php, java, actionscript, e-commerce… Anything that has to do with building a website. It would be cool to also learn design too, but that’s not a focus. I’m more interested in fine arts than digital arts.
I read that I should major in computer science, but I’m not interested in programming robots like I’ve been reading. Please help me out.

I just started my own online clothing business. I have cute and good quality items (usually things that are popular and in for teen/young adults). I have a website – www.materializeme.com (still working on getting all my items put on the site and a catalog section) – I sell on Ebay and have even tried selling on Craigslist (but buyers flake and are usually cheap). How can I get more customers without robbing my bank? What’s the secret to getting more clientele?
Also, I’m thinking about selling at Farmer’s Markets and Art Shows. Thoughts/suggestions/ideas are appreciated on this topic too 🙂
Thank you so much in advance!

I know about websites and blogging. I have been blogging since a long time but never done it for money. Now I want to build my own website. Please give some suggestions about which niche will be easy to handle and get decent income from that. If any website owner is there i will be glad to interact with him or her. Please help me!

I am having a website built for me by a friend of a friend and I want to ask them about adding an affiliate application where a code can be entered that gives a purchaser money off and also pays the affiliate who advertised the code. Is this a complected thing to ask for or is this something any web designer can install?

I’ve recently registered a sweet domain name that I’m going to use to launch a site that gives readers free coupons, samples, etc.
The last thing I want to do with this site though is be forced to fill it full of affiliate marketing and things like ‘Get a FREE Apple iPhone’
I’ve taken a look at a number of similar sites and my question to the community is: where do these sites find their content? They seem to have legit deals, offers, giveaways, coupons etc from reputable businesses. Is there a directory where companies go to list all of these deals and offers?
As I mentioned, I’m not interested in turning this new site into a SPAM-ATHON so if anyone out there knows if there is a place(s) where a publisher can find these types of offers and then post them to their site, i’d be forever grateful.
(Note: I know there are a number of these sites around already but I’m having a crack anyway :P)
I’m really looking forward to some of your insights 🙂
Thanks!