Hello all - New to this forum, and glad to be here. Around seven years back experimented with a few websites as an affiliate with merchants from CJ, Linkshare, and SAS. This was between jobs, so I had about ten months to figure things out. Did earn a few thousand dollars at that time, but once I got into PPC marketing, it drained most of my profits. I got another job, and forgot about the sites. They made no money after I stopped updating them. Once in a while someone would buy a chess board, or a standard pillow (I did not know better and was trying diverse products) and I would be rewarded with a few dollars once a quarter. Then CJ implemented the $10 per month fee and even those earnings disappeared. About a year back got laid off, and I did some part time stuff. Now I am seriously thinking of getting back in the game. Going through the threads, lots seemed to have changed. Web 2, social networking, blogging are some of the new marketing techniques. Competition, I believe, has grown manifold. New affiliate networks have appeared. There is a lot of new learning ahead of me. This site has lots of information which I am browsing on a daily basis. Hopefully I will be able to post on a regular basis, and looking forward to the new world.