That is why so many affiliates and vendors are here in this clickbank forum! Read more and you will understand better.
ClickBank had it's first $1,000,000 day early this year. I would expect it to be about an average day by now. More than half of this money goes to affiliates. So, yeah, I think that it is worth the trouble
With dedication and hard work, it is very possible to achieve amazing sums of money. It requires alot of patience, as you are going to make quite a few mistakes at first, that might cost you valuable time as well as money. But that is part of the learning phase.
I know so many people that stopped, because they lost money in the beginning, I lost lots of money as well, but experience is not cheap
How can you lose money unless you are using pay per click. There are ways to get free traffic and make money without paying you know.
CPC is just another medium from which you can get sales. Of course, if you drive lots of traffic with free methods and you make sales, that's great. But note that not all people have the time it takes to build/drive such traffic.
2 tigrs84 "PPC is the fastest and most effective way to get traffic" that's why so many people start using PPC first and waste their money,because they don't know how to use it properly. Only after that, they realize that there are free ways of making sales.