Allow me to save you countless hours spent looking for the answer to the questions you have about becoming an affiliate marketer or making money, working at home, by affiliate marketing.

Here’s the rub of affiliate marketing: If you lack the skills to connect interested parties, with money (credit cards) with offers that internet them you will not succeed at affiliate marketing.

End of story.

No traffic. No success.

Wrong traffic. No success.

Wrong offer for traffic. No success.

Success = right traffic for the offer.

Sure, there’s the matter of landing pages and affiliate programs that track and credit you and pay you, but all of those issues only begin to materialize after you have a web traffic source where the traffic or visitors have the right profile.

So, if you want to play this game then first and foremost address the issue of bringing traffic TO your affliate offer.

Organic traffic. PPC campaign traffic. Banner or graphic or video driven traffic. Strategic link driven traffic. Article marketing. Social media marketing. Domain type-in traffic.

So much to learn about “How to bring traffic to an affiliate offer”.

So much is only learned by doing.

Like I’m doing right now.

I’m neither a prude nor pristine, and I can’t claim to be the brightest candle in the candelabra, but . . really . . Google . . is anyone home?

The reason I ask is that I just received my latest email from Google Affiliate Network, updating me on new offers/merchants, and this was included:

EstablishedMen.com
Bounty: $49
CD: 30 Days
Join Program

Program Highlights:
$49 Bounty
Commission duration 30 Days

Welcome to a brand new service catering to ambitious and attractive girls seeking successful and generous benefactors to fulfill their lifestyle needs.

Benefactors? To fulfill the lifestyle needs?

Like, “Oh, Mr. Internet Marketing guy, I really really really want that nice car and a condo and party dresses. Can I have them, pretty pretty please, ’cause you know, honestly, I have lifestyle needs and I’m really ambitious and pretty too! So, like, can I have it, now, please!?”

“Sure, ambitious young lady! Thanks for asking and allowing me to satisfy my benefactor drive by benefiting you! Here’s a check! Have a nice day!”

Per the emailed offer, “Established Men offers:”
- Amazing National PR and Advertising supporting your efforts
- Access to the best tried and true creative and text links.
- New creative updated on a regular basis
- Your own dedicated Affiliate management team at Established Men
- Specials and Incentives to make you the most possible.

Website: http://www.establishedmen.com
Join the EstablishedMen.com affiliate program
Contact: Jeremy Evans – Jeremy@establishedmen.com

So, Google, in looking at the EstablishedMen.com website, I notice a page full of CITY + “Sugar Daddy” links.

Hello? Google? This is Jeff. Do you really think this is a good idea? Really? Okay. Bye.

Wow. Just wow, wow, wow.

Instead of adding to the mound of retread tires piling up on the “content dump” called the WWW, by writing anew about the elements of affiliate marketing success, allow me to spare Google and my server a few bytes of storage space by pointing you to the genius of Sugar Rae, a/k/a Rae Hoffman and suggest that you read about her experience, her thoughts and analysis of what it will take to survive as the affiliate marketing space evolves: How to Survive the Affiliate Evolution

When you are done reading her article look below it for links to her 5 part series on why most people fail at affiliate marketing.

Few folks in the space are as concise – and as generous with advice – as Rae Hoffman.

No, she’s won’t tell you what niches she is currently targeting or what keywords or ads are working best for her company. If you are still in the hunt for that type of information on the WWW (at least reliable, non-promotional info) then you will do well to read what she has said about why many (most?) people fail as affiliate marketers.