They tell you how great the program is and how much they are making
You will become a mule
they will keep trying to upsell you now you are the Affiliate newbie slave to their product
I can show you how to fake this stuff using many different programs
In like ten minutes
The Affiliate program
Sign up to Affiliate Network (free)
Web Hosting
Web design of some sort
PPC Marketing such as google adsense/bing ads
You may have to buy SEO services
Some kind of merchant account and/or paypal
It depends on the program they are selling you there may be more and they will gladly take you money for the next step to make them rich.
Don't spend another dime on anything else until you read this!
Don't sign up for any other programs or intangible systems!
Remember how it felt to put all your efforts into something that someone told you works in an instent. Not to mention took your hard earned money.
Don't let this happen to you
I've been there and I'm sure many of you have too.
Don't let it discourage you or take over your life or be hard on yourself of feel stupid.
You sign up thinking you're going to learn how it's done.
They sell you on the idea, you bye in and things always seem to go wrong after that first sale or two.
Many go on to make sales over a long stretch of time.
Many drop off right away and cut their losses, and some just keep impulse buying.