wow so this actually works .____.
I've dabbled with affiliate stuff before, but with NO success and always ended up quitting. I actually devoted effort this week and learned much more than with my past experiences in A/M. Like many have said, the trick is to actually DO something and put effort into it.
I've had my first lead a few days ago, but after $20+, I couldn't reproduce it at all. There was a lot of downtime waiting for stats so I started a second campaign. This time it was sales based. I had no sales for 3 days and turned off the campaign to focus on lead based campaigns instead(yea I guess I need to work on my patience). After turning it off I checked my stats just to make sure and it said I had 1 sale! :O
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total spent: $11
earned: $2x.xx
A lot of the money spent was from testing as well.

After tweaking for 3 days I had a good return today. I only spent $3 today so in essence I gained over $17++ for the day. Time to turn the campaign back on. screw leads.. for now.
Just need to add more keywords and expand over all the networks.