do not I repeat do not buy make money products majority of them only make the author money. its more shady than the pua industry

a website I would recommend is blackhatworld (not linking search for it) most IM forums are crap.

you really need to understand what type of marketing you want to move into for example i'm currently working in or moving into the following.

SEO -the art of getting a website to the top of google to either sell a product or get paid of ads clicks on your website. some of the spam you see on here are people trying to do this although its pretty stupid as google in this day in age sees unrelated links like that as spam and after a short amount of time there website will fall or get a unnatural link warning from google.

software moving into this working on a couple of projects and have a lot of custom software which i'm making "commercial ready" marketers need tools theres a lot of money to be made in this sector.

alternative traffic own a big facebook page congratulations you just created a targeted market to sell you affiliate products. get a youtube video on first page of youtube congratulations your video on how to remove acne you did when you were 14 will earn you some serious money. I should work on this a bit harder I mainly drive traffic from twitter to create a buzz about some of my websites created many custom bots for people so theres lots of money to be made going to move into this a lot more as part of my income diversity plan.

service backlinks (the main reason a website ranks in google) is what people will pay a premium for ive done a few random jobs for people starting a website at the end of the month you can also sell on IM forums.

this is what I'm working towards to get rid of the day job its complete diversity so if one area is doing bad for a few months i'll still be able to live.

there's many other areas of affiliate marketing the above is only the ones I work in or am working towards.
want me to go into more detail about any of the above let me know