I first started looking into affiliate marketing in the beginning of '09. My first goal was to make ANY commission.
I got my first commission on 10/16/09 - $0.16 from the ebay partner network.
My next goal was to make $1/day. I hit that pretty quickly after I hit the first goal.
Yesterday alone I made about $18 from that program and naturally I am working on a consistent $10/day. I am not quite averaging that yet BUT I finally feel like I know what I am doing. I am re-vamping quite a bit of stuff right now and hope to be doing more volume very very soon with all of my stuff.
I'm starting CPA offers and not doing so bad - my first PPC campaign cost me $550 and I made $340. Compared to most PPC beginners that's pretty good.