What we should have done by now

By now, you should have registered at an affiliate directory, get familiar with how they work. There is only one way to do that, practice of course. You should choose a nice program to promote, if you chose Clickbooth I recommend you sort by EPC, since it pretty much represents the profit potential for the least amount of effort, and high demand, and conversion rate. You should do some slight research on that program, find keywords for it using the keyword tool, and use those keywords on your blog. This will also tell you how much overall competition you may be dealing with in your niche.

Then you should have a blog atleast. Most likely a review or how-to blog. You should practice with the systems to familiarize yourself with your chosen blog platform. Make your blog nice. Try to integrate as seamlessly as possible your review, or how-to guide, with your affiliate program link. You must actually provide useful content, and at the end give them the program that will solve all their problems, and make sure they KNOW it will solve their problems.

You should have put into practice some of the traffic generation methods I mentioned. I recommend Article Marketing and submitting your URL to search engines and other such places atleast.

There is of course a delay in visually seeing the progress you have made. You may not notice your effort from submitting your URL for over a month, possibly more, but sometimes less. I got lucky and my blog was indexed in Google in less than a day, this seems to rarely happen. Just don't give up and think your efforts are in vain just because you don't see instant results. Most things in internet marketing have massive delays between the time that you performed the action and its results.

I will be moving onto more advanced methods soon.

GOOD LUCK!