I've been teaching myself affiliate marketing for about nine months and boy, has it been a steep learning curve with little results!  My best (and only) achievement to date is that I have learned to set up my own website (yes, I even conquered the FTP bit). So far my site always ranks 11-13 on Google but I still need to get onto the first page and I'm yet to make a sale!  Hopefully, this will change now that I have finally joined WA, which I thought about joining for a long time but thought I'd be okay on my own.  So now it's full steam ahead ... I'm in WA, and I'm looking forward to learning to do it properly - and quicker.  Wish me luck.