$106.63 a day seems pretty modest compared with the amounts most internet marketers out there claim they are making.

This is not about becoming a millionaire by this time next Tuesday working 10 minutes a day in your underwear.

And I promise you will not be seeing pictures of my Malibu beach house, my 5-star holiday in the Maldives or the Ferrari I paid for last week in cash.

In fact, I have been averaging more than that per day – and doing it consistently for the last 6 months – by promoting a single product as an affiliate.

This income stream took me a few hours to set up and now just a few minutes every other day to maintain.

Anyone with modest intelligence and a willingness to take some simple action can do the same… once they know the process.

So I can say with some authority that, if you are struggling to find success, it’s probably because you are looking in the wrong place.

Despite what most of the ‘gurus’ would have you believe, having a good product to promote is not the key. In fact, it’s the least important part of the equation.

You could have the best product in the whole world and you could even be giving it away for nothing. But you won’t shift a single one unless and until you get someone to see your offer.

In other words, you need visitors, or ‘traffic’ in marketing-speak. Without that, you don’t have a business.

And yet almost all beginners fixate solely on the product, thinking that if they build it, people will come.

They spend huge amounts of time, energy and money creating or sourcing something to promote, putting together websites, squeeze pages, autoresponder sequences, upsells, downsells, payment systems, product delivery and customer support only to find, if and when they finally have everything ready to go, they have no way of getting anyone to come and see their shiny new business.

It’s like building a Starbucks in the middle of the Sahara Desert and wondering why there isn’t a mob of customers banging on the door on opening day.

In case you don’t know, affiliate products are other people’s products you sign up to promote. You earn commissions on everything you sell but the product owner deals with delivery, payment processing, customer support and all of the other paraphernalia of an online business, so you don’t have to.

Only after you are making money, consider developing your own products, creating fancy websites, using other traffic sources and all of the rest of it.

The route to fast online success really is as simple as those two steps and, if you take nothing else away with you, your time here has been well spent.

The second step is easy. There are thousands upon thousands of great affiliate products out there you can promote and they are very easy to find on networks such as ClickBank.com, JVZoo.com, CJ.com and many others.

But it’s the first step – mastering a single profitable traffic source – that causes people problems.

I should know. I have tried just about every traffic strategy going in 10 years online… forum marketing… guest blogging… Google AdWords… video marketing… Search Engine Optimisation… banner ads… media buying… classified ads… and even flyers and direct mail.

I have had success – often a lot of success – with some of these techniques. But I don’t mind admitting that I have also wasted huge amounts of time and taken a real financial kicking with others!

So where should you go if you are a beginner looking to master your first traffic source or you are a more experienced marketer looking to scale your profits up?

Others, like media buying, are incredibly fast and provide almost unlimited traffic but are expensive and very, very risky.

If we want a single traffic source for both beginners and experienced marketers alike, we need it to be a good one.

And that means we are looking for the ‘Holy Grail’ of internet marketing… a source of fast, consistent, reliable, unlimited and cheap traffic that is simple enough for anyone to pick up and profit from quickly and effectively.

I will go into detail about why I think this is the perfect solution, particularly for beginners, in just a moment. But first, I want to show you what is possible with my own real life case study.

This is important because there is nothing in what I’m about to show you that you couldn’t do very easily once you understand the process behind it (and I’ve already said that isn’t rocket science)…

I had played around with it a couple of years ago and I did make money. However, the way I was doing it then was very time-consuming and so I eventually moved onto other things.

Fast forward to a few months ago and I was looking for a way to promote a particular product called ‘Easy Sketch Pro’.

This is software that automates the process of creating so-called ‘whiteboard animation’ videos. I’m sure you’ve seen them because they are all the rage at the moment.

They are the ones where a hand appears to ‘sketch out’ images and text to illustrate the narrative of the video.

Big businesses and ‘guru’ marketers have been using whiteboard animation for some time because they know it is much more effective than other video formats.

Because it is entertaining and that means people are more likely to watch right to the end and then do what you want them to do.

But whiteboard animation had been denied to the ‘little guy’ because of the high cost and/or technical expertise required… until Easy Sketch Pro came along.

This software automates the whole process, so anyone could now create whiteboard animation… and do it at the almost ridiculously low price of $29.

I knew that, if I…