Great thread!

Wow I'm rather surprised with some of your conversions here guys, rather shmorgus boardish - 1000 uniques and $100??!? Of course it depends on how targeted your traffic is and how well crafted the sales pitch is, and how much the commission is, and and and - but as stated above at LEAST a 1% conversion is a good avg. Thus promoting products with $50+ payout should realistically bring you avg. $500. Some programs convert at up to 20% (rare but happens) - and have amazing backed upsells for further monetization et al.

Chachinga - THIS is a great conversion - lists will usually outperform anything else (perhaps adwords a close second).

Building your portfolio of conversions is hard but once you got it down pat it's hard to do much else - If I were you (youtube or not), I would re-evaluate the offer you are pushing and how you are youtubing (perhaps expand to source tighter traffic and viewers).

Cheers,
NC.