Hello Curtis;
I can probably understand your frustration about having an affiliate program idea and finding the right medium to put it at there. Your probably hearing everything from Article Marketing, email marketing, list-building etc.
I'm not here to selling you on any of that. Frankly, your probably not here for that type of affiliate program. Never the less I'm interested in you identifying the type of affiliate program. This is to identify the best strategy for your business.

I look forward to working with you on your affiliate program. You are welcome to search me and my brand name business online "Deese Marketing Association," to find out about me. My Facebook page is constantly updated on my activity I do on a daily bases here at PartnerUp and other networks throughout the Internet.

John Deese
Deese Marketing Association edit

Affiliate marketing is never the whole picture - its just part of the picture. In my experience, reviews are on of the best ways to make in with affiliate income. Start a blog reviewing something you're interested in - its best not to join in on a crowded niche.

Then its just a matter of finding a good product to promote that gives you a good commission - clickbank, cj.com, and Google all have pretty good programs. edit

Your right on product reviewing Brandon.
I find product review will gross you some income, yet its not your traditional business building. The other thing with product reviewing and blogging is that it can confuse individuals when it comes to branding your business as a whole, due to the various of subjects, niches and genre of information overload that would be put out from your network.
For instant if your writing reviews of pet food one day, decided to write reviews on craft making products another and so forth, then individual visiting your blog or network site will get information overload as to what is your business really about and what your area of expertise is.
I generally find clients wanting to buy products and services from those that are specializing in their one expert field of business.
Yes, niche over-saturation can be a indicator of too many individuals publishing in that genre and make it highly improbable for you to get an ROI on the monetizing of your site.
With regards to the affiliate providers, Click bank is good, CJ has at less one thumb up with me and I just don't outright affiliate any of Google products. But then, that's just me. I tend to like to go straight at the companies with their own in-house affiliate program back office rather than a third part, which can lead to some ambiguity in the proper commission reporting, especially if your not using a third party tracking program to redundantly check for these sites like CB and CJ reporting. Yes, even they have had tracking and improper reporting errors happen.
In summation, it boils down to how actively your taking part in building your business and learning some technical matters that will and is needed to operate your business online. Be that its in Affiliate marketing, Private services area or any other platform of business and that industry you want to work in.

John Deese
Deese Marketing Association edit

One of my clients makes all of their money from affiliate income - he provides a service for free (small scale), and then lets users pay to upgrade to a better version of the service with full functionality to use for their business.

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One of my clients makes all of their money from affiliate income - he provides a service for free (small scale), and then lets users pay to upgrade to a better version of the service with full functionality to use for their business.

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