1) Learn basics here
2) Read several methods here
3) Read books on marketing (yes, big, scary papery books)
4) Use the basics you learned here, and the marketing knowledge from books to come up with your own method
5) Profit
Sounds easy, but it isn't. You wont bother doing this, and you'll end up going thread to thread looking to be spoonfed. In some cases, such as threads like Meathead's method thread, you'll be spoonfed. But in the end it wont matter, because you wont do anything with the information because you're lazy.
Good luck.