Skills required for affiliate marketing

[urbanhermit]

Hello,

I did a search of the forums and couldn't find a definitive answer (apologies if it's been covered elsewhere)

Are there any specific skills that you should work on during your affiliate marketing career?

I'm going to work through the beginner push guide but would be useful to know what other skills I should look at i.e.

Coding
Data Analysis
Design
Copywriting
Etc

As an aside, does anyone have experience of having taken their affiliate marketing experience and used that to get freelance work with external