Do you find the process of affiliate marketing a bit confusing? Do you wonder if it's even possible to make a living through affiliate marketing? Maybe you've spent countless hours setting up marketing strategies for your affiliate products, such as blogs, articles, Squidoo pages, websites, and so on, only to find that you're not making the kind of money you need to justify your effort.

It's one of the buzzwords of today's internet world: Social marketing. If you've been selling on the internet for very long, or you've just been thinking about trying your hand at internet sales, you've probably read web page after web page about how social marketing is the future of ecommerce.

But some marketers think it's a colossal waste of time.

Affiliate marketing can be an extremely lucrative way to earn a living online. Some affiliate marketers earn six figure incomes with relatively little effort, and a few have even become millionaires with this business.

Still, the fact is that only about 5 percent of affiliate marketers ever earn real income with their businesses, while the other 95 percent struggle to even make enough sales to cover their advertising costs, let alone compensate them for their time and effort.

What percentage of your website visitors actually buy your products? If you're like most of us, you spend your time and money getting traffic to your website, only to find that your visitors are just browsing and asking questions, instead of pulling out their credit cards and clicking on the "Buy Now" button.

Having great products is not enough.