1. In all honesty why should an affiliate care about you being a photographer? They are here to make money just like you. All they want is good support and good promotools so they can do their job, promote your program. I have been a PA on a couple of video shoots and i know the frustration and the hassel, but you have a program now and need to look at it from a program owners position. If you sre a great photographer use it to your advantage by making the promo tools with your best work. Just try to keep in mind you are a program owner and you must also think like one.
2. Being an affiliate is not easy if you became an affiliate and didnt have any help you would probally fail too. You say you do 30 mins a day of marketing, but most affiliates work 10+ hours a day if not more. This is where you really need to understand what they do and how they do it. If you understand the life of an affiliate you will be able to see what they need to succeed, and if your affiliates succeed so will you
Im not saying your doing anything wrong im just letting you know how to increase your profits. No matter what you do in this bis there is always something you can do to make it better. You should sign up as an affiliate for a few companys and see what kind of tools they offer their affiliates. Bottom line is, get an affiliate section and get some banners and other promo stuff up for the webmasters to use.
Doing what your doing now is a good start, getting on the forums and asking questions will help a lot. Ill be more than happy to help and so will most members on here.